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What we commonly call man, the eating, 
drinking, planting, counting man, does not, 
as we know him, represent himself, but 
misrepresents himself. Him we do not 
respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, 
would he let it appear through his action, 
would make our knees bend. 


■Emerson. 



CONTENTS 


PAGE 

I. Health from Within. 7 

II. The Awakening of the Soul. 17 

III. Will, Love, and Work . 28 

IV. Obsessed by an Idea. 36 

V. Live Wills and Dead Wills. 43 

VI. The Voice of Life. 52 

VII. Non- Attachment . 56 

VIII. The Woman— The Man. 60 

IX. Harmony in the Home. 70 

X. Words and Health. 75 

XI. Environment. 82 

XII. How to Establish Health and Harmony. 91 

XIII. The Supreme Truth. 94 

XIV. How New Thought Helps One.102 

XV. The Power of Imagination and Faith... 109 

XVI. Health, Happiness, and Busy Hands_ 115 

XVII. To Make Yourself Valuable.120 

XVIII. Practical Self-Healing.126 

XJX. The Way to Gain Results .. . 132 

XX. One of the Secrets of Mind and Body 

Vigor.136 

XXI. To Lengthen Life. 145 

XXII. To Make Life Brighter. 150 

























I. 

HEALTH FROM WITHIN 

All Cures Are Mental Cures—How 
Medicine Heals—The Right Mental 
Attitude in Which to Seek Health. 

HE only real source of 
health for the individual 
is within himself. 

At the last analysis 
all cures of dis-ease are 
mental cures, i. e., the 
cure is accomplished only when there 
is an acceptance of health, and of the 
terms of health, upon the part of the 
individual. 

Medicine acts as a suggestion for 
health, through its chemical action upon 
the body and through the faith of the 
patient. 

But medicine will not heal a man 
against his own will, faith, and desire. 

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Health is an attribute or quality of 
the Universal Life, and health in the 
individual depends upon his realization 
of this quality. 

The individual realizes health— 
which is the absence of dis-ease and 
the presence of harmony—by coming 
into at-one-ment with the Principle of 
health in the Universal Life. 

He mentally gives himself over in 
faith to the law of health. He is will¬ 
ing to be healed, willing to realize 
health, from whatever source it comes. 
Will, faith, and desire all unite in 
accepting health. 

You are then in such a condition that 
the Law of Life can find expression 
through you. You have made the con¬ 
ditions right to realize health. 

As long as you are seeking or search¬ 
ing for health you are not healthy. 
When you make at-one-ment with the 
Principle of health you will give up 
searching for health and realize that 
you are at-one with all health. You 


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FROM WITHIN. 


will not then think about your health 
any more than you think about air. 
You will be IN health. 

Health is not something to be grafted 
upon your body, or injected into your 
veins from the outside. It is a con¬ 
dition of realization within yourself. 

All disease arises from ignorant 
beliefs, manifesting in the physical 
self. 

Disease is the precipitate cast by 
error thoughts. It is an evidence of 
habitual error in our thinking. 

The mind becomes hypnotized with 
fear at the first sign of inharmony, and 
holds to its fear until the fear crystal¬ 
lizes into disease. 

The first symptoms of disease are 
nature’s warning that there is some 
error in our thinking, some mistake in 
our formula of life. Instead of allow¬ 
ing the mind to become fixed and rigid 
with fear, we should seek for the error 
and destroy the accumulated results of 
our mistake by getting into line with 
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HEALTH AND WEALTH 


truth and keeping there. Set the sub¬ 
conscious mind to work in accordance 
with truth and you will thus dissolve 
and drive out the crystallized error. 

To take a concrete example. We 
will say that you find yourself mani¬ 
festing the disease called rheumatism. 
The first step towards getting into 
harmony again is to make the physical 
conditions as favorable to the manifes¬ 
tation of health as possible. Certain 
foods favor the development of rheu¬ 
matism. It would be well to avoid 
these for a time. Then turn your 
attention to the thought that you are 
one with Infinite Health and that you 
have only to come into conscious at-one- 
ment with that Principle of Health— 
through meditation, mental consent, 
and realization—in order to manifest 
perfect health in place of this crystal¬ 
lized error which has grown up around 
your mistaken formula of living. 

Be patient and persistent in edu¬ 
cating your subconscious mind in a 


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knowledge of truth, and you will get 
definite results. 

The healing will come quickly or 
slowly according as your faith be 
strong or weak. 

Set your desire and will to work with 
your faith. 

Ask intuition—your soul—to en¬ 
lighten your mind. 

Right here seems to be an appropriate 
place to speak of going into the silence, 
and to give a few rules for the guidance 
of the beginner. 

There is much written about the 
silence, and many methods given for 
deriving benefit by “going into the 
silence.” 

This is my personal view of the 
subject, and you can modify it to suit 
your needs. 

Going into the silence, as I conceive 
it, is making the conditions favorable 
so that you may come into fuller touch 
with the cosmic forces and principles 
which lie back of the phenomena of life 


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and action upon the objective plane. 
It is making yourself a good conductor 
of the cosmic life force. 

Great inventors are perhaps our 
most successful and practical examples 
of men who bring forth actualities 
from the silence. These men first con¬ 
ceive their inventions in the silence, in 
the realm of principle. Elmer Gates, 
the father of an almost incredible 
number of inventions, is said to have 
reduced the art of sitting in the silence 
to a system, which he follows in accord¬ 
ance with certain well defined rules, 
such as sitting in the silence for a 
certain length of time each day in the 
same room, and in the same chair, 
while working out certain mechanical 
inventions. (Floyd B. Wilson, a per¬ 
sonal friend of Elmer Gates, gives an 
extended account of these methods in 
his “Paths to Power.”) 

These men first fill their minds with 
their subject. They learn all that 
reason can supply them with about the 


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FROM WITHIN. 


particular invention in which they are 
interested. Then, by sitting in the 
silence and becoming passive, they make 
themselves conductors or mediums for 
the cosmic principle of the instrument 
or machine they wish to construct. 
Their trained, sensitive imaginations 
absorb, step by step, the principle of 
that which they wish to know, and then 
they are ready to reproduce it on the 
objective plane. 

My idea is that to affirm that which 
you desire to realize is helpful only as 
it puts you in the right mental attitude. 
It may help to set your creative forces 
at work along the line you wish to 
attain, but affirmation may easily be¬ 
come worry. And when you go into 
the silence, leave all worry behind. You 
cannot become receptive to cosmic truth 
and principles while your mind is 
absorbed with some personal worry. 

Only recently I was talking with a 
prominent new thought man who prac¬ 
tices going into the silence for whatever 


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he may desire to realize. For a con¬ 
siderable period of time he had been 
daily affirming along a certain line of 
desire, with no apparent results. The 
affirmations had almost or quite reached 
a point of anxiety and worry, when he 
ran across an old mystic, presumably 
well versed in the occult. This mystic 
told our new thought friend that he 
was overdoing the affirmations, that he 
was creating anxious conditions which 
repelled the very thing he sought, and 
that the work he had been trying to 
accomplish by affirmation was already 
complete. 

So the man let go, dropped all affir¬ 
mation, became more passive and set 
to work to manifest on the outer plane 
what he had been seeking to realize, 
and lo, things began to shape them¬ 
selves in a wonderful way exactly as he 
had desired. 

“As intimacy with high ideals 
grows,” says Mr. Wood, “they respond 
to your invitation for a meeting when 


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FROM WITHIN. 


you will. Your creative thought-force 
confers upon you a new way of looking 
at things. * * * It is all thor¬ 

oughly practical, but only so when 
brought into the realm of feeling as 
well as intellect, and you must not only 
seek and affirm but appropriate and 
use the principles of health and life.” 

Health and wealth are principles 
already existing, and you want to 
realize them, not simply seek them. 
You want to “absorb and live them,” 
realize them at your own center , appro¬ 
priate and use them, and not seek them 
as something outside yourself. 

Your mind needs to go out in healthy 
activity as well as to be bathed in the 
cosmic silence. 

One must maintain the proper bal¬ 
ance between subjective and objective. 

It doesn’t do you any good to con¬ 
ceive plans and formulate the most 
beautiful and effective working ideas 
if you don’t carry them out on the 
objective side . 


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Indeed, if one spends too much time 
in planning and dreaming he becomes 
weak on the side of practical manifes¬ 
tation. 

Beautiful thoughts are worthless 
until you have coined them into con¬ 
crete results. The telephone and 
phonograph were of no use to humanity 
so long as they existed only as an 
embryo in an inventor's mind. 


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FROM WITHIN. 


II. 

THE AWAKENING OF THE SOUL. 

Cosmic Consciousness—The State De¬ 
scribed—The Awakening of the Mind 
as From a Hypnotic Sleep—Buddha 
the First Example of Cosmic Con¬ 
sciousness—Walt Whitman—Age at 
Which the Cosmic Sense Develops — 
“An Infinite Ocean of Calm” 

OON after a baby is born 
into the world it is 
endowed with what we 
call simple consciousness. 

It possesses the primal 
and animal desires for 
food and sleep, it sees and recognizes 
objects outside itself, but it is not self- 
conscious; the reflective power is not 
yet present. 

The second degree of consciousness, 
known as self-consciousness and which 



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distinguishes man from the animals, 
makes its appearance in the child at the 
average age of three years. 

Both these degrees of consciousness 
are common to all normal human beings. 

Psychologists teach us that the de¬ 
velopment of these two degrees of con¬ 
sciousness have resulted only from ages 
of evolutionary development and some 
of these wise men now tell us that the 
race is developing a third and still 
higher degree of consciousness, termed 
Cosmic Consciousness. 

This state is as far above self-con¬ 
sciousness, the ordinary human con¬ 
sciousness, as that is above simple 
consciousness, the consciousness com¬ 
mon to animals and babies. 

“Cosmic Consciousness is, as its 
name implies, a consciousness of the 
cosmos, that is, of the life and order of 
the universe,” said Dr. Richard Maurice 
Bucke, the chief authority upon this 
subject. With the birth of this con¬ 
sciousness comes an illumination of the 


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FROM WITHIN. 


intellect and spirit and sense of immor¬ 
tality, an absolute consciousness of 
eternal life. 

It is a sort of soul awakening—an 
awakening to a consciousness of the 
Real Self. 

Man sees himself not as a material 
being of flesh and blood, but as an 
immortal being, a part of the one Divine 
Principle of Life, created from the one 
Eternal, Divine Substance. 

With the birth of this higher con¬ 
sciousness there comes less fear of 
death. The mind conceives the Real 
Self as something which existed before 
birth, and which will survive after 
death. 

The material, objective life becomes 
none the less real. Indeed it takes on 
new beauties and interests, but it as¬ 
sumes its proper relation as an effect 
and not a cause in itself. 

The mind awakens, as from a 
hypnotic sleep. It sees life as a whole, 
and is enabled to give things a truer 

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value than ever before. It is no longer 
hypnotized by the varying desires of 
the material man. 

The man now lives from the center 
of life instead of the circumference. 
There comes a knowledge of the mem¬ 
ory of the soul—that all experiences 
are there recorded and can be brought 
into the consciousness even when the 
mind, at first, does not recall them. A 
fuller sense of the oneness of life is 
constantly present, a clearer perception 
that the individual is related to all 
humanity and that what affects others 
also bears a relation to him. 

There is also a growing consciousness 
of the power of the soul to heal the 
body, to protect it from harm through 
accident, to relieve the mind from fear 
and to harmonize mind and body. 

The soul rules its own kingdom and 
comes into its own. It no longer 
shrinks and hides before the desires of 
the flesh and of the mind. 

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FROM WITHIN. 


It was Dr. Bucke’s belief that Cos¬ 
mic Consciousness first had its birth in 
the race in pronounced degree, in the 
person of Buddha; that since the death 
of Buddha it has made its appearance 
in a constantly increasing number of 
individuals during each age, and that it 
is destined, ultimately, to become uni¬ 
versal. Not only will more people 
become possessed of the faculty, but it 
will be more nearly perfect, more pro¬ 
nounced. 

Whenever this Cosmic Sense is devel¬ 
oped in a man, it makes its appearance 
between the thirty-first and thirty-fifth 
years of age. 

Walt Whitman was pronounced by 
Bucke to be the best, most nearly per¬ 
fect example of the Cosmic Sense the 
world has so far seen. 

* * * * * 

The writer believes that the new 
thought movement is the first sure in¬ 
dication of the coming forth of the Cos¬ 
mic Sense, in some degree, among a 


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large number of people. The time 
seems to have arrived for the flowering 
forth of this Cosmic Consciousness, and 
if the belief of the writer be true, the 
new thought so far from being a fad 
of the moment, or a newly invented 
system for the transient entertainment 
of a weary people, is really an out¬ 
growth of the religious and philosoph¬ 
ical systems of the world, and truly the 
product, the flower, of ages of evolu¬ 
tionary development. It represents a 
distinct step in the unfoldment of man¬ 
kind. 

The new thought movement, if it 
really indicates the birth of the Cosmic 
Sense in a large number of people, may 
well be that to which the New Testa¬ 
ment writers referred as the second 
coming of Christ. Some who have ex¬ 
perienced the birth of Cosmic Con¬ 
sciousness refer to it as the Christ 
Consciousness—the real saviour of 
mankind. 

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FROM WITHIN . 


I do not know when Dr. Bucke died, 
but I doubt if he knew very much about 
what we call the new thought. As an 
indication that this movement is really 
a result of the Cosmic Sense becoming 
developed in many people, I, therefore, 
quote from his statement of the truths 
which the birth of the Cosmic Con¬ 
sciousness revealed to him. The italics 
are my own. 

First, he says that he “came to see 
and know that the cosmos is not dead 
matter hut a living Presence” 

Secondly, “that the soul of man is 
immortal, that the universe is so built 
and ordered that without any perad- 
venture all things work together for the 
good of each and all.” 

Thirdly, “that the foundation prin¬ 
ciple of the world is what we call love, 
and that the happiness of everyone is in 
the long run absolutely certain.” 

Speaking in general terms of the 
birth of the Cosmic Sense, Dr. Bucke 
says: “It will not teach a future immor- 

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tality nor future glories, for immortal¬ 
ity and all glory will exist in the here 
and now. The evidence of immortality 
will live in every heart as sight in every 
eye. Doubt of God and of eternal life 
will be as impossible as is now doubt of 
existence.” 

Are not these statements in perfect 
accord with new thought philosophy? 

If we consider the specific and per¬ 
sonal experiences which, according to 
Dr. Bucke, attend the full realization 
of the Cosmic Sense, it is probable that 
we shall find very few, if any, among 
the new thought people who have 
actually and knowingly passed through 
them. But when we compare Dr. 
Bucke’s own statements regarding the 
truths revealed to those who have devel¬ 
oped the Cosmic Sense, with the spirit 
of the new thought teachings, we are 
sure to discover a strong relationship 
between the two. And I believe we are 
justified in saying of many new 
thought persons that they live close to 

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that borderland beyond which it is only 
a step to the light of the Cosmic Day— 
so close that they often catch gleams 
of its foreshadowing splendor and are 
able to interpret somewhat of its real 
significance. 

* * * * * 

It is very interesting to note that one 
of Dr. Bucke’s chief claims for Cosmic 
Consciousness is that it reveals the 
underlying unity of life. He says that 
the teachings of all great religious 
leaders, properly understood and inter¬ 
preted and cleared from the rubbish of 
mistaken records and translations, 
would be found identical and in perfect 
harmony. Paul, Mohammed, Dante, 
Jesus, Buddha, Walt Whitman, all de¬ 
livered messages in perfect unity with 
each other, although seemingly often 
divergent. 

And this very idea of Unity is also 
one of the foundation teachings of new 
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HEALTH AND WEALTH 


Even the work done by the best men¬ 
tal and spiritual healers may be con¬ 
sidered a faint foreshadowing of the 
birth of the Cosmic Sense. 

In speaking of Whitman, Dr. Bucke 
says: “When he gives he gives himself. 
The ordinary self-conscious mind can¬ 
not clearly realize the faculty alluded 
to in these words. Perhaps the best that 
can be done is to consider it analogous 
to an influx of vitality , admitted into 
humanity through certain men per¬ 
meating and vivifying each and all who 
permit it to pass into them” 

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Many new thought writers, as well 
as Hindu Mystics, have written that 
the way to peace and happiness is by 
letting go. 

Here are a few extracts from the 
recorded experience of one who realized 
Cosmic Consciousness:— 

“At last, subdued, with a curious 
growing strength in my weakness, 1 
let go of myself. In a short time, to 
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my surprise, I began to feel a sense of 
physical comfort, or rest, as if some 
strain or tension was removed. Never 
before had I experienced such a feeling 
of perfect health.” And she became 
conscious that there is “Only one in all 
the infinite universe, the All-loving, the 
Perfect One, the Perfect Wisdom, truth, 
love, and purity. * * * It’s glow, 

warmth, and tenderness filling the uni¬ 
verse. That infinite ocean was the 
eternal love, the soul of nature and all 
one endless smile. * * * Out of 

this experience was born an unfaltering 
trust. Deep in the soul, below pain, 
below all the distraction of life, is a 
silence vast and grand—an infinite 
ocean of calm, which nothing can dis¬ 
turb; Nature’s own exceeding peace, 
which ‘passes understanding.’ ” 



HEALTH AND WEALTH 


III. 

WILL, LOVE, AND WORK. 

Why Work Becomes Drudgery — Work¬ 
ing Under Tension Wastes Magnetic 
Force—How to Get Best Results 
From Work. 

ORMAL activity is always 
an aid to health. 

Digestion, assimila¬ 
tion, sleep are all im¬ 
proved by a reasonable 
amount of physical and 
mental activity. 

Now why is it that work often degen¬ 
erates into drudgery, and we become 
tired, get in a mental rut, don’t seem 
to care whether school keeps or not? 
Why do we so often lose our interest 
in our work? At first, when beginning 
a new line of work, we are full of 
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months or weeks, it begins to pall upon 
us. 

The first great reason for our failure 
to find work constantly interesting is 
that we do not cultivate the spirit of 
play in connection with our work. We 
do not put love into it. 

The child puts love into his play. 
Work is a grown-up form of play, and 
we should realize this and not allow it 
to become drudgery. 

“The love we liberate in our work is 
the only love we keep,” is one of the 
favorite mottoes cut deep in one of the 
massive oaken doors at the Roycroft 
Inn. 

To go about your work with resist¬ 
ance in your mind soon leads to a feel¬ 
ing of drudgery. 

Make up your mind once for all that 
this work you are doing is the best 
work for the time and place that you 
can possibly have, and that you are 
going to do it well; that you are going 
to enjoy it. 


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The Spirit of Life which lives 
through you leads you to attract only 
such experiences as are needed for your 
development. / 

The work which is now close at your 
hand is what you need now to complete 
the next step in your development. 
Accept it as your work. The better 
you do it the sooner you will graduate 
into something else. 

If you will to do your work and with¬ 
hold your love, you are doing yourself 
an injury. 

Will without love creates tension 
and hardness, while life is fluid and 
pliant. 

Will becomes the letter that killeth. 
Love is the spirit which giveth life. 

Will and love should always work 
side by side. One balances the other. 
Together they make for harmony. 
When divorced, life becomes a barren, 
cold, severe, hard, unendurable thing, 
or else is burned in a fire so fierce that 
it soon destroys. 


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Let your will and your love find a 
point of agreement, and then drive 
them side by side. 

If you have some stern work ahead 
that you feel like shrinking from, try 
letting a little love go out to it along 
with your will. Are you not strength¬ 
ened by the obstacles you encounter? 
Is it not true that only by using all 
your faculties can you preserve their 
natural strength? Why then shrink 
from the ordeal? Rather meet it with 
love as well as will. 

The strength, calmness, security of 
the Universal Life Principle is yours to 
draw upon. You are living in a sea of 
life and strength. You need not tense 
your nerves and harden your muscles 
so desperately by the action of your 
personal will. By doing so you choke 
the currents of life, even as they spring 
within you. But relax, love, trust the 
life that lives in you, and the work 
ahead becomes easier. 

Another reason for our losing inter- 


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est in our work is too intense applica¬ 
tion. 

Learn to use only so much force as is 
required to perform each act. Keep 
cool, poised, collected. 

There is an enormous waste of mag¬ 
netic force in persons who work under 
tension, who allow themselves to become 
fretted and worried over their work. 

Some who really love their work 
keep at it too steadily and for too long 
hours. This is especially likely to be 
the case with one who is building up a 
business. 

I know a woman—a strong, capable 
woman—who loves her work above all 
else. She has put herself into it for 
several years, and made an unusual 
success in a business which women 
have as yet left almost entirely to the 
men. She has had no more than a few 
days’ vacation in several years and has 
worked — I’m afraid to say how 
many hours a day she has worked, be¬ 
cause you would n’t believe me. 


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As a result she is tired out—phys¬ 
ically exhausted—and ready to give up 
the nice business she has built up. 

Now if this person had limited her¬ 
self to reasonable hours of work, had 
taken a good vacation every year, so 
that she could come in contact with 
entirely different people, with different 
magnetic and mental currents, she 
might have retained her health and 
kept on with her work. 

It is true that under our present 
social system many people are so 
situated that they cannot go on long 
vacations or take long rests from their 
work. Yet even the humblest worker 
can do much to prevent his life forces 
from running in narrow channels and 
his mind from getting into narrow ruts 
of thinking, provided he has the desire 
to do so. 

For your own sake, whether you are 
working for yourself or others, put 
your good will and love and conscience 
into your work. 


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To do so will add to your happiness, 
increase your health and magnetize 
YOUR ENVIRONMENT SO THAT YOU WILL 
ATTRACT BETTER AND HIGHER CON¬ 
DITIONS. 

When you mentally resist your work 
you are setting up vibrations which 
will result in failure and unhappiness. 
All the attractive power goes out 
OF YOUR aura and you cannot hope to 
succeed. 

To become a powerful center for 
success, to magnetize your forces for 
advancement, you must put your love 
into every act. 

How will this build up health? First, 
by developing concentration and poise. 
When you love your work you keep 
your mind centered upon it. Your 
mind does not wander around and your 
mental forces dribble out to waste in 
idle thoughts which vaguely float about 
in the mind. 

Concentration and poise mean assim¬ 
ilation and elimination. 


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Then, the person who puts love into 
his work succeeds and that brings added 
happiness, and happiness promotes pure 
blood. 

Physical labor offers especial oppor¬ 
tunities for building health. 

We ought not to look upon work as 
an affliction of Providence, but as offer¬ 
ing us grand opportunities for advance¬ 
ment, as presenting obstacles, perhaps, 
but such as it will strengthen us to 
overcome. 

Learn to love your work and it will 
add to your health and strength in 
every way. 


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q 


IV. 

OBSESSED BY AN IDEA. 

Undesirable Mental Visitors—How 
They Waste Energy—How They 
Come and How to Get Rid of Them — 
How to Direct the Subconscious Mind 
so as to Avoid Obsession. 

OST of our troubles come 
through allowing unde¬ 
sirable ideas to hang 
around us. 

We dwell with these un¬ 
wholesome visitors until 
we have actually clothed them with 
power and authority over our minds. 

We build around them a mental wall, 
which prevents them from being dis¬ 
solved by the clear light of truth and 
common sense. 

How many times have you allowed 
your mind to become worried and ruf- 



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fled and then “worked yourself up” 
over some trivial suppositious happen¬ 
ing—something in all probability which 
you could not help, if it were really 
about to occur, and, in most instances, 
it never does occur. 

How foolish, is n’t it? We all know 
from our own experiences in this line 
just how foolish such proceedings are 
—yet how commonly they are indulged 
in. 

What a waste of magnetism and 
vital force such a mental storm pro¬ 
duces! The idea which possesses us 
fairly saps our energies for the time 
being. 

The same energies might just as well 
be turned into useful work, artistic 
creations, the entertainment of our 
friends, health-giving exercise, which 
would build more energy, or a hundred 
useful channels which would occupy 
our attention and enable us to forget 
the idea which we had foolishly allowed 
ourselves to entertain in our mind. 


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Here is a letter I have just received 
from a woman who thinks she is hope¬ 
lessly unhappy from an idea obsession. 
Such cases are pathetic, and yet so 
utterly foolish. 

“As I was sitting thinking of my¬ 
self” (that’s the trouble with the person 
who gets obsessed by an idea. He 
thinks about himself and cultivates an 
ingrowing disposition until he magni¬ 
fies every natural happening out of all 
normal proportion), “the thought came 
to me that maybe you could help me in 
some way. I was at prayer meeting 
Wednesday night and I got into a fit of 
anger, and ever since I have been so 
that I cannot control my temper. My 
pastor came to see what had happened 
to me and I could not be civil to him. 
I must be under some influence. If I 
cannot better my condition at once I 
shall be a wreck.” 

Barring a possibility of depleted 
blood and nerve exhaustion (which I 
judge from this woman’s letter does 

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not exist in her case at all), this is a 
pure and simple example of allowing 
one’s self to become hypnotized by a 
negative idea. 

During the first fit of anger (which 
might have been due to overeating or 
the fact that she was tired) the sub¬ 
conscious mind was strongly impressed 
with this negative condition—so 
strongly that it carried the impression 
away from the prayer meeting and 
continued to manifest it for several 
days. 

If this woman had risen right up 
with a strong will and purpose firm 
and said “scat,” “skidoo,” “vamose,” 
to that idea when it first began to crop 
up after prayer meeting, it would have 
tucked its tail between its legs and 
hiked for the land of nothingness where 
it belonged. 

But instead she prostrated her com¬ 
mon sense and will and purpose before 
this idea. She said: “Come in, Mr. Idea, 
and let me look at you. I don’t like 


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you very well, but I’m afraid to send 
you away. You seem strong and big. 
You might injure me if I were to offend 
you.” 

Then she rehearses all the sensations 
attendant upon the birth of this idea 
into her mind. 

And the idea feeds upon her energies 
and waxes fat under all this attention. 

It is easy to control ideas if we only 
take them in season, and don’t enter¬ 
tain and nourish them after we find 
out that we don’t want them. 

A good long walk in the open air will 
help wonderfully to clear the mind and 
make you forget an idea. So will any 
physical work. 

The main thing is to do something, 
to keep body and mind busy. 

It’s the people who have nothing to 
do but sit and meditate upon their 
troubles who have such difficulties as 
this woman writes about. 

Had she a few good-sized washings 
to do, four or five youngsters to look 


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after, a house to take care of, or a 
family to cook for, she wouldn’t have 
much trouble of the sort complained of. 

When necessity is pressing one— 
necessity to work for food and clothing 
—and one is obliged to work hard dur¬ 
ing a good share of every day to keep 
his head above water, he does n’t have 
much trouble with thoughts which pur¬ 
sue him without his permission. 

And right here is the crux of the 
matter: Thoughts never do pursue us 
unless we entertain them. 

The person who has lots of leisure 
is apt to become morbid, and fondle 
thoughts which later on he thinks he 
does not want—just because his mind 
is idle and lacks a steady, firm purpose. 

Keep the mind fixed upon some defi¬ 
nite object. Have some goal in life. 
See that you keep busy at some useful 
work. Keep active. Don’t admit to 
your mind for one instant that you can 
become hypnotized by any idea from 
the outside. Do not indulge in morbid 


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introspection. Keep the mind away 
from yourself, until you can indulge in 
calm self-analyses with a clear mind. 
Do not fear for one instant that any¬ 
thing or anybody can control or obsess 
you. 

There is no power to control you in 
any idea that comes from the outside, 
except as you yourself may yield the 
power of control to such an idea. 

Your real self rules supreme in its 
own kingdom. Fear not, and no-thing 
from the outside in the way of an idea, 
mood, or fixed semi-hypnotic condition 
of the mind will ever harm you. 

Awake! and know your own kingdom 
of poise where harmony is supreme. 



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V. 

LIVE WILLS AND DEAD WILLS. 

What Is Real Will Power?—How 
Gained?—Will Not the Highest 

Faculty—Power of a Trained Will. 

ANY a one who prides 
himself upon possessing 
and exercising a strong 

will does not have a 

strong will at all in the 
true meaning of the 

term. Rather he is gifted simply with 
obstinacy. 

A mule is blessed with obstinacy. 

So is a pig. 

But neither of these animals consti¬ 
tutes an ideal example of a strong will. 

A strong will is a live will. The one 
possessing it is, above all, adaptable 
and can meet changes gracefully. 

Life is change, motion, and the will 

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that is alive, that manifests life, must 
be able to adjust itself readily to 
change. 

But most of your strong-minded 
people pride themselves on not chang¬ 
ing. 

They mistake a fixed will for a 
strong will. 

A fixed will is not a strong will; it is 
merely an obstinate will—a dead will. 

A strong will, in the truest sense of 
the word, leads one to retrace his steps 
when he finds he is in error. It 
requires the highest and finest develop¬ 
ment of will to acknowledge one’s mis¬ 
takes and take the back track. 

The merely obstinate will closes the 
intuition to the perception of truth. 
It fixes the attention in one direction 
only, holding the unalterable idea that 
that is the only true direction. But 
the individual grows. His conception 
of truth, his understanding and knowl¬ 
edge of universal law, must change, if 
he is to live; and this fixed will, this 

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dead will, this unyielding, inflexible 
mental attitude, stands in the way of 
normal evolution. 

Many new thought leaders, perceiv¬ 
ing the good results which flow from an 
awakened will, from a quickened desire, 
jumped at the conclusion, apparently, 
that all that was necessary in order to 
bring the individual right into the king¬ 
dom of heaven was to cultivate his will 
power, induce him to fix his will and 
stick to his conception of truth. 

As a result of following, literally, 
this process, many earnest students of 
new thought found themselves up 
against a stone wall. Some even 
passed out of the body, vigorously 
denying weakness and sickness and 
death until the last. 

What was wrong? 

They were mistaking obstinacy for 
strength. There is a kind of brute 
strength in obstinacy, but it is not a 
sustaining, living strength. 

These persons were in the position of 

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a student of arithmetic who formulates 
a rule for the solution of a certain prob¬ 
lem and then says, “I’m going to stick 
to this formula until I solve the prob¬ 
lem.” Now his formula might be 
defective, and if so, no amount of mere 
obstinate holding to his course would 
result in the solution of the problem. 

What we should seek is wisdom. We 
should not lay down hard and fast rules 
by which life and power are to come to 
us. We are growing beings. The 
formulas we use to-day may be replaced 
by entirely different ones to-morrow. 
And the will should be adaptable to 
such changes. 

Find out what your own soul says. 
For you there is one path, one formula. 
For your neighbor a different one. 
However good and true the formula 
another may be using, it is quite likely 
to need varying a little before it is 
suited to your needs. Keep your mind 
and will open to conviction. 

Those new thought teachers who 


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make much of the use of will power as 
a means of salvation seem to think it is 
the highest faculty in man. 

Will is related to the physical and 
objective life. It is purely executive. 
But it derives its commission from the 
eternal principle in man, the vital, liv¬ 
ing being which we term the soul. 

The wise man seeks more wisdom 
from his own soul. He tries to come 
in touch with Cosmic law through his 
intuition, his soul faculties, and to 
learn “the will of the Father,” the will 
of Universal Life, that he may align 
his own will therewith, and thus ex¬ 
press harmony and joy. 

If we would accomplish much and 
be happy we must become good con¬ 
ductors for the Universal Life. This 
we cannot be if we dedicate our per¬ 
sonal will to fixed, narrow, and selfish 
ideals, because then our will will be 
ever acting as a wall, an obstruction, 
to the normal inflow and outflow of the 
Cosmic forces. 


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Let us take two concrete examples 
illustrating the use of will in the way 
of promoting self-development. 

A young woman who was an earnest 
student of new thought and advanced 
teachings generally, started in to take 
a series of fasts, with a fixed deter¬ 
mination to accomplish certain results. 
The results did not materialize in 
accordance with her expectations. She 
grew thin and nervous, and an un¬ 
healthy flush was in her cheeks. All 
this time she was cultivating a fixed, 
inflexible attitude of will. Kind friends 
ventured to suggest that she give up or 
change her methods for a time. She 
only set her mind more intensely, and 
accused them of trying to “break” her 
will. Her condition became very 
serious and a sister, without the knowl¬ 
edge of the young woman, consulted a 
new thought teacher and begged that 
advice and assistance might be offered 
the sufferer. 

The letter dispatched to the young 

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woman contained the following sound 
advice: “Now YOU are the only one in 
the world that can help yourself very 
materially. If you keep your will set 
on one special course of treatment, the 
results might be very serious. There 
is nothing that will ruin body and mind 
so quickly as a set will. So I do hope 
that your will is free and poised, ready 
to turn when you see the point I have 
tried to make in this letter. A set will 
is a dead will. But your will is still 
living and ready to turn at your word. 
See that you speak the word for letting 
go and living a natural, healthful life.” 

At the present writing the outcome 
of the above case is unknown. 

Another instance of a wiser use of 
will recently came under the writer’s 
observation. 

A very able and intelligent new 
thought woman, whom we will call Mrs. 

A-, had developed a fixed mental 

habit of resistance and resentment 
towards Miss B-, a member of her 


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family. There was much provocation 
for this attitude of mind, but Mrs. 

A-saw the necessity of outgrowing 

it for her own sake as well as the sake 
of the other person involved. She saw 
that her own opposition simply brought 
out and increased the attitude on the 

part of Miss B-, which was the 

cause of her own resistance. 

So this woman started in to fast with 
the idea that it would help her to over¬ 
come the resistance. She was trying 
to give up her own will to what seemed 
to be the will of the Universe. 

The moment her fast was completed 

she went to Miss B-and expressed 

her changed mental attitude by show¬ 
ing a complete acquiescence with Miss 

B-’s views on the cause of their 

differences. She went over completely 
and heartily to the other’s point of 
view, and from that moment Mrs. 

A-continued to use her own will to 

keep her mental attitude in harmony 
with Miss B-’s. 


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What was the result? Why, Miss 

B-’s entire attitude changed also, 

and at least a good share of the cause 
of the former inharmony between the 
two was removed, and they came to a 
mutual meeting ground. 

The change in Miss B-was due 

wholly to the changed mental attitude 

in Mrs. A-. There was no sudden 

transition, and no verbal understand¬ 
ing between the two. Miss B- 

simply felt and responded to the higher 
mental vibrations and the higher mental 

attitude in Mrs. A-. And both 

lived happier ever afterward. 

“He that loseth his life shall find it.” 

We often realize our desires by doing 
directly the opposite thing to what our 
intellect would lead us to do. 

Seek wisdom of the soul. Seek to 
cultivate an enlightened will and adapt¬ 
able will rather than one which is 
simply obstinate and “fixed.” 

Grow a live will instead of allowing 
your will to become dead in obstinacy. 


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VI. 

THE VOICE OF LIFE. 

Life Itself has Speech and is Never 
Silent . And Its Utterance is not y 
as You that are Deaf may suppose , 
a Cry; it is a Song . Learn from it 
that You are a Part of the Harmony; 
Learn from it to obey the Laws of 
Harmony .—From Light on the Path . 

N most of us the voice of 
life is stifled. 

It is stifled either by 
the intellect or the phys¬ 
ical senses. 

The Voice of Life can¬ 
not speak to us of the infinite harmony 
which exists back in the subjective so 
long as we live by reason. 

The golden-rod and the rose do not 
reason. Hence the soft whisperings of 
the Voice of Life are accepted and fol- 

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lowed implicitly by them so far as their 
powers of comprehension extend. 

The soft wind gently sways them and 
makes them strong; the warm rain 
falls upon them, and they absorb it 
gratefully, building it into their mate¬ 
rial structures; the sun shines upon 
them, and they respond to its influence; 
they turn their faces toward it and 
drink in its radiance and transmit its 
beams into glowing color. 

All this without effort or noise or 
pain. 

But man grows through painful 
effort. He has become overbalanced 
by his reason, and allows himself to be 
misled by it. It becomes necessary 
that he should pass through all sorts 
of rough experiences in order that he 
may finally be turned back upon him¬ 
self, to listen to the Voice of Life and 
become conscious of the Great Har¬ 
mony which is ever waiting to receive 
him and give him peace. 

Life that requires effort for expres- 



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sion is not really Life. Such living is 
simply man’s distorted view of the real 
principle of Life. 

The expression of Life should be 
fraught always with joy and peace. 

The expression of Life in useful 
work should and would be a pleasure if 
man were not deaf to the Voice of 
Life. 

It does not require watching at every 
stage of its manifestation. 

Do we watch the sun to see that it 
rises properly? 

Do we fret about the stars properly 
following their orbits? 

No more should we worry about the 
Life that lives through us. 

We should realize our unity with the 
One Life and rest in this Universal 
Power that springs forth from the sub¬ 
jective whenever we listen for the Voice 
of Life to speak to us. 

Let Life live in and through you. 
Seek for harmony and you will find the 
key to enduring power and joy. 

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The power which men manifest upon 
the earth to-day is only a temporal 
thing, because it is based upon an intel¬ 
lectual and sense conception of what 
life really is. It is based upon imper¬ 
fect and distorted views of truth, dis¬ 
torted because the eyes are blinded and 
the ears made deaf by the things of 
the objective world—the things of 
sense. 

But when the consciousness of man 
becomes deeply rooted in the subjective, 
when he turns within himself and lis¬ 
tens for the Voice of Life, then Life 
and lasting powers will be built up 
within him without effort or pain. 


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VII. 

NON-ATTACHMENT. 

First Lesson the Occult Student Learns 
—Attachment Hinders Change — 
How to Keep Young—Rest and Re¬ 
laxation. 



! 0 long as we are attracted 
to the things of this 
material world we can 
never be free. We are 
bound as with iron 
chains. 

All things in the material world 
change their form, grow old, and die. 
And if we find our life only in material 
things, we, too, shall have to grow old 
and die. 

This has nothing to do with senti¬ 
ment or religion. It is simply a fact 
in nature. 

When we turn our minds to the study 


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of that unchanging Principle upon 
which all material things are based, we 
begin to see the wisdom of non-attach¬ 
ment. 

One of the first lessons the occult 
student meets is the necessity for isola¬ 
tion. He learns to let go. 

This is necessary in order that we 
may be responsive to the spirit of life, 
and follow its promptings. 

If we are attached to the material 
world we refuse to change and the Life 
Principle can then no longer manifest 
through us. 

A baby is non-attached. So much so 
that it requires a distinct effort of its 
mind to control the movements of its 
body. 

As the child grows older his move¬ 
ments become more automatic. 

His life is becoming centered on the 
material world and his surroundings. 
He is no longer living in such close 
at-one-ment with the Life Principle. 

The influx of life into his body is not 


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so full. He is cutting off the supply 
somewhat because his mind is becoming 
hypnotized with the world of sense. 

As years go by, he lives less in touch 
with the Life Principle and his thoughts 
become more strongly centered on things 
material; hence he grows old in body 
and finally dies. 

If we desire to keep young we must 
live more in the vibrations of Life itself, 
and center our thoughts less on the 
material world. 

We must turn to the One Principle of 
Life and let it live through us. 

The more strongly attached we are to 
material things the less real rest and 
relaxation we get, became we cannot 
let go. 

A young child, being non-attached, 
can relax and rest and sleep whenever 
he desires, thus giving the Life Prin¬ 
ciple an opportunity to rebuild and 
recreate his body. 

Proper rest and relaxation—the kind 
of rest a baby takes—will do more than 


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all else to keep the body young and 
strong, and to preserve beauty. 

Overwrought nerves result from the 
inability to let go —from attachment. 

Real rest and perfect relaxation can 
only be realized when we cease to strain 
after material objects and simply let 
the Principle of Life enfold us and live 
through us. 


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VIII. 

THE WOMAN—THE MAN. 

Marriage is a Means of Developing 
Strength of Character, and Results 
in Spiritual, Mental, and Physical 
Growth. 


T was a hot afternoon in 
August. 

As we rode along the 
narrow country road the 
cool, green trees which 
lined the wayside reached 
out their branches to us and rustled a 
soothing lullaby. 

Our perspiring horses paused a 
moment as we topped an unusually 
steep rise, and my companion, the 
loquacious proprietor of a little country 
hotel, pointed to a set of farm buildings 
on the near-by rugged hillside. 

These buildings were noticeable for 
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their neat, well-kept appearance. The 
yard was trim and free from weeds. 
No sagging gates were visible, and no 
loose or displaced boards disgraced the 
barns. All bespoke thrift, comfort, 
and modest prosperity. 

“That man,” continued Mr. Brown, 
in his comfortable New England voice, 
“used to be the most shiftless critter in 
the neighborhood. He lived at home, 
an’ carried on the farm; but he never 
got on none. His place always looked 
run down an’ he was owin’ money all 
the time. Then he got married, and 
you never see sech a change come over 
a feller. Just look at his place now I 
An’ he’s made money, too. It’s all 
owin’ to his wife. Beats all how he 
has spruced up.” 

There are many hundred thousand 
families in the United States, I have no 
doubt, who, with variations for locality, 
would answer to the above description. 

Then you have all known young girls 
who before marriage seemed given 


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over to frivolity and thoughtlessness, 
and yet these same young women after 
a few years of married life developed 
into efficient matrons and became real 
helpmeets to their husbands. 

Where lies the secret of these trans¬ 
formations? 

It is evident that here are at work 
more powerful forces than the ordinary 
relations of life bring into action. 
The attraction which exists between 
a man and woman at the time of mar¬ 
riage calls out the deepest side of their 
emotional nature. 

It is a time when both are inspired 
to creation and achievement. Both 
desire intensely—more intensely than 
they have ever desired anything before 
in life—to please the other, to accom¬ 
plish that which will make them appear 
well in the other’s eyes. 

The man desires to create for his 
bride an attractive home. He aspires 
to something better, as a rule, than he 
himself has possessed. 



FROM WITHIN. 


The woman, if she is sensible, desires 
to become a good home-maker. If her 
husband is a man of moderate means, 
she desires to assist him in making his 
income go as far as possible. 

Now something of this intense desire 
and feeling, which is born at the time 
of marriage, is bound to be carried 
along into the future life of the man 
and the woman. 

If the marriage is not a happy one, 
their ideals and ambitions may soon 
vanish. 

If they are true lovers, the force of 
their ideals will persist until substan¬ 
tial results appear. 

Man and woman together can accom¬ 
plish far more than either alone. There 
are exceptions to this rule, as to all 
others, but in a general way it is 
true. 

The spiritual, mental, magnetic ex¬ 
change which takes place between true 
lovers fertilizes all their faculties. 

The emotions become centered, in- 


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stead of drifting, and they also become 
stronger and steadier. 

And the emotions furnish the motive 
power of the individual. 

In a happy married life the emotional 
power of the man and woman flows out 
into their ideals, their ambitions, and 
their creative power is increased many- 
fold. 

The happily married man or woman 
learns much of emotional control. In 
the close association of husband and 
wife, each learns adaptability. Each 
learns to look at a subject from the 
other’s point of view, to retrace their 
steps at times. 

In a happy, normal marriage all this 
experience helps to greater success in 
business and in the household. 

Adaptability, patience, and applica¬ 
tion have all been stimulated. The 
unformed boy and girl characteristics 
have been welded together by the power 
of the emotions into a continuity of 
character which will lead to progress. 

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At present most of these results are 
accomplished upon the unconscious 
plane. 

We can learn to consciously direct 
this emotional power toward the crea¬ 
tion of our ideals. 

This emotional force objectified 
means greater success in business and 
social life. It means new ideas, greater 
concentration and attention to work, 
new plans for the improvement of the 
home, and a stronger desire to create a 
successful business. 

How can this emotional energy be 
consciously directed? 

First and foremost, by seeing that 
none of it is wasted in dispute and 
“bickering.” 

Husband and wife will find that it 
means dollars, health, and power to 
them to always cultivate harmony in 
all their relations. 

Is your husband cross? Act as a 
foil by meeting him with complete non- 
resistance in your mind, and his cross¬ 


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ness will vanish. And with it will go 
the waste of his emotional power. 

Let the husband and wife always 
seek for a common meeting point where 
they can act in harmony. 

Do not be afraid that you will “give 
up” more than your share of rights. 
And don't be sanctimonious over what 
you do give up. 

By “giving up” you are often doing 
a greater service to yourself than to 
your husband, or wife. 

The emotions checked in their resist¬ 
ance to your mate flow out with 
renewed force in other directions. 

Perhaps you remember in “Leaves 
of Grass” where Whitman relates that 
he once loved unrequited and that out 
of that love he had written all his 
poems. 

The same emotional force which 
goes into wrangling and dispute be¬ 
comes a fine creative power when har¬ 
mony is courted. 

Let the husband and the wife system- 


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atically cultivate harmony and oneness 
of their emotional powers. Let the 
husband court the wife after marriage 
the same as before. Let him treat her 
with the tenderness, the consideration, 
and the outward demonstrations of 
love so dear and precious to the fem¬ 
inine nature. 

Then will she pour through him a 
wealth of emotional power, which will 
sustain all his own powers and fertilize 
every faculty with the vibrations of 
love and harmony. Then will the two 
together send out their combined love 
vibrations in the creation of a success¬ 
ful business, a beautiful home, or what¬ 
ever they may desire to realize. 

And what of those who have been 
unfortunate enough to make an un¬ 
happy marriage? 

Here, too, there is great opportunity 
for development. Remember Whit¬ 
man. 

Where an unhappy marriage exists, 
if either party to the compact will make 

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a patient, loving, charitable attempt to 
bring forth harmony, much can be ac¬ 
complished. Wonderful results will 
often spring from what seems barren 
soil. But it is absolutely essential that 
the one who makes the attempt should 
be free from cant, hypocrisy, resent¬ 
ment, and the idea that he or she has 
a right to demand a certain line of con¬ 
duct from the other. 

You may justly claim certain rights, 
perhaps, but you will never promote 
harmony in the process. 

Harmony is elusive and must be 
courted. She flees at the hint of force 
and the assertion of rights. 

Magnetize your own personality 
with love and patience and you will 
attract harmony—and you can attract 
it in no other way. 

Harmony in marriage is a result of 
mutual attraction, and cannot be 
forced. 

But even if you have done your best 
and failed, what then? 



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If you have really done your best you 
have received an abundant reward in 
your own self-development. 

No marriage can prevent you from 
cultivating patience and love and free¬ 
dom from resentment and control of 
the emotional nature. 

And if you have harmonized yourself, 
even in degree, and magnetized your 
personality with the vibrations of love, 
you have made of yourself an attractive 
center for your own good, and cannot 
fail to realize it. 



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IX. 

HARMONY IN THE HOME. 

Love is Creative—Harmony Should Be 
Guarded and Developed—How Hus¬ 
band and Wife May Live in Har¬ 
mony. 


ITHOUT harmony of 
thought, feeling, and 
action on the part of man 
and wife, marriage fails 
of its highest results. 
Love is creative. But 
without harmony it never flowers. 

Harmony should be guarded and 
developed, consciously and intelligently, 
between man and wife. 

It will add immeasurably to their 
health, happiness, success, and power to 
accomplish. 

Two people who live together in the 
close relation of husband and wife must 



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learn to respect each other’s desires, 
tastes, and habits, and grant to each 
other freedom of action, or harmony 
can never result. 

The one who imposes his or her per¬ 
sonality upon a life partner suffers far 
greater injury than the more negative 
member of the union. 

Your own point of view may be cor¬ 
rect or it may not. 

In any event it can do no harm and 
will probably do much good to get 
at your partner’s point of view on the 
same subject. 

It helps you to see things as others 
see them. 

This is one of the great benefits of 
the marriage relation—it keeps one 
from becoming lopsided and helps him 
see all around any subject. It wears 
off the rough corners of one’s disposition 
as a less intimate contact with individ¬ 
uals in the outside world would never 
do. 

But to secure good results in mar- 


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riage there must be an honest attempt 
at co-operation on the part of each. 

Until you have tried to co-operate in 
this relation you do not know what 
wonderful results may be accomplished 
in the line of self-development and the 
realization of harmony and power. 

Too often one member of the part¬ 
nership is willing to co-operate while 
the other cultivates selfishness. 

A man is far too apt to refuse to 
lend sufficient weight to his wife’s opin¬ 
ions, desires, and inclinations. He 
is far too self-satisfied for his own 
good. 

But the silent, persistent attempt on 
the part of one to bring forth harmony 
in the home, the repeated statement, 
the silent WORD, of harmony, spoken 
in love, creates a center of rest and 
power the vibrations from which grad¬ 
ually widen and widen until all within 
the family are brought into more or 
less accord with this center. 

Through harmony we enter upon the 

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spiritual plane, the eternal plane of liv¬ 
ing. 

As the vibrations become more and 
more in unison with the Principle of 
Life—or more spiritual—regeneration 
begins. The whole body and mind be¬ 
come poised in harmony with Infinite 
Life and Love. 

When both man and wife are looking 
toward the PRINCIPLE of Life rather 
than at its outer form, they begin to 
pass from generation to regeneration, 
all unconsciously—at first—to them¬ 
selves it may be. 

Day by day they come more in touch 
with the vibrations of the eternal, their 
souls expand, their bodies thrill and life 
takes on new beauty, where before all 
was discord, ceaseless effort, and pain. 

Husband and wife hold between them 
the key to heaven. 

Through the creative power of love, 
harmoniously directed, and unity of 
thought and effort, they may become 
fitting temples for the Spirit of Life to 

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dwell in, and may use this key which 
they hold to enter upon the Life of 
Regeneration, where body and mind 
become attuned to the Infinite Life. 


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X. 

WORDS AND HEALTH. 

But I say unto You , that Every 
Idle Word that Men shall Speak, 
They shall Give Account Thereof in 
the Day of Judgment. For by Thy 
Words Thou shalt be Justified , and 
by Thy Words Thou shalt be Con¬ 
demned. 


ORDS are a power. 

They constitute a 
point of focus for cre¬ 
ative energy. 

When we say, “I will 
do this thing,” or “I 
will do that thing,” our energy follows 
our words. 

A distinct effect is produced upon our 
brain area by each spoken word. 

Strong words build up. Weak words 
tend toward disintegration. 



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Too many words exhaust. Too few 
words may arrest development. 

We are forever being judged, accord¬ 
ing to our words, by the unchanging, 
eternal laws of the universe. 

We are justifying or condemning 
ourselves by our words, every day of 
our lives. 

If we throw into the universal vibra¬ 
tions words that are false, weak, un¬ 
kind, we reap a vibratory harvest which 
exactly corresponds with our sowing. 

If we say, “I feel sick,” we help set 
in motion the inharmonious vibrations 
of sickness and put ourselves in touch 
with the world-thought of sickness. If 
we do not put much energy or feeling 
into our words, the sickness may soon 
pass. / If we repeat the statement and 
yield to the feeling day after day, we 
come more and more to manifest the 
condition in our lives./ 

So many of our friends say, “I can¬ 
not control my thoughts. My mind 
wanders all over.” 


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If you will pay a little attention to 
controlling your words, you will find it 
a great help in gaining control of your 
thoughts. 

Your words form a focusing point 
around which your thought energy 
gathers. 

If you allow yourself to indulge in 
scatter-brained talk, you are going to 
develop a scatter-brained mind. 

For the great, eternal law of justice, 
of absolute equity, is quietly, silently 
working to bring you the fruit of your 
sowing. Speaking words is a form of 
planting or sowing. 

You all know how quickly an ill-na¬ 
tured, sarcastic, or fault-finding word 
will bring out in others that which cor¬ 
responds to itself. An entire family 
will soon come under the influence of 
the vibrations of discord through the 
thoughtless utterances of one member. 

And, on the other hand, the deter¬ 
mined, persistent speaking of only such 
words as cheer or help—good-natured 


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words that make for harmony—by one 
member of a family will often gradually 
bring all the others under a “spell” of 
brightness and good will, so that har¬ 
mony will become prevalent instead of 
being the exception. 

The spoken word is a step nearer the 
plane of action, a step nearer to the 
plane of realization than thought. 

The word is a crystallization or pre¬ 
cipitation of the thought. 

The spoken word is strong in propor¬ 
tion to the amount of feeling you put 
into it. If you spill words on all sides 
in a reckless manner, with no thought 
as to whether they are true words or 
good words, and represent the things 
ypu deeply desire, then of course you 
exhaust your reservoir of creative 
energy and your words lose their 
weight. Your energy is then like 
water that spreads out and runs very 
shallow. 

It will pay to be a little more saving 
of your words, and to think a little 

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more about their use. Let them spring 
spontaneously from your deep desires, 
but let them not go out without the 
power of positive thought behind them. 

Thought-less words are mischief 
creators. They are like a derelict ves¬ 
sel at sea—not going anywhere, and a 
possible menace to whatever they come 
in contact with. 

To talk “for the sake of talking,” 
because you think it is “good form” to 
entertain your friends, is silly and 
unprofitable, unless your desire is 
strong enough to enable you to put in¬ 
terest and energy into your words. I 
am reminded in this connection of a 
visit which Emerson once enjoyed with 
a friend of his, and during which 
neither of them spoke a word for the 
major part of a day. 

Uncontrolled speech leads to uncon¬ 
trolled acts, and to results which are 
beyond control. If you say to yourself, 
“This kind of food never agrees with 
me,” you immediately begin to tighten 

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the muscles of the stomach, so that 
the food cannot be properly assimilated, 
and in spite of nature’s efforts you 
resist so strenuously that the food 
“lies heavy.” You say it “disagrees” 
with you. In truth it is you who 
disagree with it. The only way to 
straighten matters out is for you to dig 
up by the roots your former statements 
of error, and revise them in accordance 
with the truth, and with that condition 
which you desire to realize. 

We are enslaved by words, and it is 
by words that we shall finally become 
free. 

The race words of death, disease, old 
age, etc., have hypnotized us until their 
vibrations are well-nigh all powerful, 
and seemingly beyond our control. 

But if we set up the words of perpet¬ 
ual youth, eternal life, omnipresent love, 
and the like, we shall soon get free 
from the hypnotic power of these race 
words. We shall get out of their vibra¬ 
tory currents and find ourselves able, 
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to some extent, to control the deleterious 
action of such currents upon ourselves. 

“Order is heaven’s first law,” and to 
realize harmony, which is health and 
success, there must first be some sort of 
order established in our thinking and 
speaking. 


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XI. 

ENVIRONMENT. 

Are We Bound by Environment?—The 
Story of Ingersoll—The Key to Free¬ 
dom—The Magnet which Attracts 
One’s Environment. 

HERE are many persons 
who consider environ¬ 
ment a hopeless thing, 
closely allied to a living 
death. 

They feel themselves 
bound by something outside of and 
greater than themselves. 

For such, environment might not be 
inaptly symbolized by a skeleton which, 
with bony fingers, forever pushes back 
and down the man who would free him¬ 
self from his surroundings. 

But look closely! 

Back of the ghastly, grinning face 








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you may see outlined the rosy, smiling, 
youthful, alluring features of Oppor¬ 
tunity. 

All environment is but the gateway 
of Opportunity. Perhaps you have 
heard the story of the man who dreamed 
he died and went to hell. When he 
arrived he was agreeably surprised to 
find so pleasant a place. Presently he 
met a few men who, during their earth 
lives, had been celebrities. Among 
these was Col. Robert G. Ingersoll. 
Our friend expressed to the Colonel his 
great surprise at the beautiful and gen¬ 
erally desirable condition of his sur¬ 
roundings. “Well,” replied Ingersoll, 
“you just ought to have seen this place 
when we first came here!” 

Yes, it is true that Opportunity 
stalks close to each and every man, 
close as his own heart beats, if he will 
only look for her. 

But many of us become so hypnotized 
by environment that we fail to grasp 
the good which the great Life Principle 

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is ready to bestow upon those who work 
for it. Many drift along in a careless, 
hopeless way, which serves to enthrone 
in their minds the supposed power of 
environment and brings them little 
results for their work. 

Here is a man who writes me: “Do 
you think a change in vocation will 
bring a change in life?” And I can 
only answer that that will depend upon 
the questioner. 

The key to this man’s freedom is to 
be found only in the habitual mental 
attitude which he assumes toward the 
universe, and especially toward life 
and environment. 

It is possible to so magnetize the most 
hopeless environment by putting love 
and good will and soul energy into 
one’s work that success in the truest 
sense will be attracted. 

For it is true that we reap what we 
sow in environment as in everything 
else. 

We cannot attract anything which 

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does not correspond with something 
within ourselves. 

And if we are really willing to give 
something of value to the world, we 
need not fail to find buyers on account 
of our environment. 

The great Emerson once said that if 
a man could construct a better mouse¬ 
trap than any one else the world would 
make a beaten path to his door. 

We fail because we allow our en-. 
vironment to discourage us. We look 
to it for inspiration and leave untapped 
the limitless supply of energy within 
ourselves. 

We become hypnotized by our sur¬ 
roundings and the seeming obstacles 
that hem us in, until our personal 
efforts are paralyzed. 

Awake, and look upon yourself as a 
source of power! 

If we are to get anything out of life 
we must first put something in. The 
universe is governed by mathematical 
laws, otherwise chaos would result. You 


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cannot plant thistles and harvest grain. 
You cannot throw out upon your envi¬ 
ronment the vibrations of doubt, hate, 
disgust, indifference, indecision, and 
gather in honor, riches, love, and happi¬ 
ness. 

You are drawn by the magnet of the 
Law of Attraction into environment 
where you can best express the desires 
and thoughts which you hold oftenest 
and strongest in your mind. 

If you indulge most of your time in 
thoughts of failure, fear, weakness, 
poverty, sickness, you slump down and 
down and your environment furnishes 
you the means for expressing and real¬ 
izing your desires. 

It does not matter that you are igno¬ 
rant of the Law of Life and uncon¬ 
sciously hold such desires and thoughts 
as bring you into unpleasant conditions. 
The Law works just the same, and you 
reap your harvest of inharmony until 
you really desire a change with all the 
power of your being and begin to build 



FROM WITHIN. 


new environment by the positive power 
of your newborn desire. 

When you begin to put something 
into life, when you, perhaps, begin to 
realize dimly the drawing power of 
desire, and occupy your mind with 
more positive thoughts of success and 
health, when you put some love into 
your work and make it in some degree 
a worthy expression of yourself, then 
your environment will not require any 
worry on your part. 

A change of environment might bring 
temporary benefit to one discouraged 
and accustomed to living in the nega¬ 
tives of life, but only the permanent 
habit of giving the best of yourself can 
insure a satisfactory harvest and the 
realization of a “good” environment. 

People sometimes exhaust the good 
in their environment, that is, they learn 
all that is to be learned by them in that 
particular place, and then the Spirit 
forces them out and into new surround¬ 
ings, just as a child at school passes 

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from a lower grade to a higher. But 
no one has derived all the possible good 
from his environment unless he has put 
the best of himself into his work, in the 
meantime throwing out upon his sur¬ 
roundings the vibrations of faith, love, 
and success. Only under such condi¬ 
tions can one learn all the lessons that 
any environment can teach him. 

Another question asked by the man 
referred to above is this: “How can I 
cultivate a business nature, more active, 
American-like?” 

Cultivate a desire to be businesslike. 
A real, full-grown desire—not a weak, 
wishy-washy little wish. Desire that 
Truth shall establish itself in you and 
manifest itself through you. This will 
bring success in business, for failure is 
due to imperfectly expressed Truth, to 
an imperfect understanding of the Law 
of Life. 

Whenever a man makes Truth his 
standard and seeks for poise, success 
will come. Success and health are the 


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real things in Life, the true things, the 
substantial things, founded on the Life 
Principle. Failure is a series of mis¬ 
takes and misconceptions of Truth, due 
largely to a lack of faith in the Life 
Principle. 

Doubt leads to your becoming hyp¬ 
notized by error, and this leads to fail¬ 
ure and ill health. 

Cultivate your faith, and grow your 
desire for success. Then realize that 
you must put the best of yourself into 
your business if you are to get any¬ 
thing out. 

If you do not like your business, con¬ 
sider whether you are better fitted for 
anything else, and if you decide that 
you are not, 'pitch in and keep in mind 
the object to be gained—that is, success 
and freedom. 

The secret of being happy and suc¬ 
cessful is to express yourself. Don’t 
curl up because you think your environ¬ 
ment is n’t what it ought to be. Ex¬ 
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desire for Life and express it on the 
outer plane. After a little you will get 
so taken up with the game that you 
will forget your environment, and suc¬ 
cess and health will both be tagging 
you around all day long. 


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XII. 

HOW TO ESTABLISH HEALTH 
AND HARMONY. 

Cause of Inharmony—How to Realize 
Unity With the Life Principle—Fix 
Your Thoughts on What You Desire. 

T is an obvious fact that 
any abnormal condition, 
any inharmonious con¬ 
dition, must be the result 
of an error. 

There is no inharmony 
in the multiplication table. 

A machine constructed in exact ac¬ 
cord with the principles of mechanics 
will work smoothly. 

So when the human body shows forth 
disease—dis-ease—or inharmony, it 
indicates that the mind, after which the 
body is fashioned, has been dwelling on 
thoughts of error; in other words, has 

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been making a mistake, entertaining 
mistaken beliefs. 

The existence of any kind of disease 
is absolute proof that the mind is not in 
strict harmony with Truth or the Prin¬ 
ciple of Life. Think it over a few min¬ 
utes and see if it is not so. 

Even accidents are due to predispos¬ 
ing mental causes by which the individ¬ 
ual attracts the conditions which render 
the accident possible. 

How shall we avoid mistakes? By 
ever being responsive to the impulses 
which Nature, or Truth, has implanted 
in us, and which are only crowded out 
when we get in a mental rut and pound 
away at some particular line of thought 
under the impression that we know it 
all. 

We don’t know it all, and if Truth is 
to be established within us and find ex¬ 
pression in our lives, it may be neces¬ 
sary for us to double right back on our 
own course. 

Most people do not care to know the 


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Truth. They only want to know that 
which falls in with their pre-conceived 
notions of how things ought to be. 
They want the universe to run as they 
think it ought to run. And sometimes 
the universe won’t do this. Under 
such circumstances the wise man will 
just settle back on his oars and observe 
awhile until he gets a little insight into 
the true principle of the thing. 

This insight will come if you really 
desire it. But fix your thoughts on that 
which you desire and not on your aches, 
pains, and the faults of your family 
and the neighbors. 



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XIII. 

THE SUPREME TRUTH. 

To the Most the Quality of Cosmic 
Consciousness Will Seem Indefinite 
and Elusive to the Last Degree. As 
a Matter of Fact it is the Most Im¬ 
portant and the Most Solid Entity 
That Exists To-day in the World — 
Dr. Richard M. Bucke. 

T is a significant fact that 
almost every human be¬ 
ing, of whatever race, 
possesses some faith or 
belief in a Supreme 
Principle, a Great First 
Cause, which lies back of and enfolds 
his individual life. 

Those who call themselves atheists 
ever and anon give evidence by their 
writings that they have at least a 
degree of faith in some universal, all- 
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pervading Force or Power in nature. 
I have known agnostics to refer to this 
power as “the heart of nature,” which 
is certainly a beautiful name for what 
we term Spirit. 

Emerson referred to this Universal 
Life as the Oversoul. The name mat¬ 
ters little; it is the One Supreme Prin¬ 
ciple which all men recognize in some 
form, each according to his own degree 
of development. 

It is the realization of the omnipres¬ 
ence of Divine Principle which brings 
within the reach of man health, peace, 
and abiding joy. 

Health is harmony of vibration, a 
state of at-one-ment in consciousness 
between the individual and Universal 
Spirit. When the individual will be¬ 
comes too dominant and attempts to 
force things to go the way it desires, 
inharmony (harmony expressed in¬ 
wardly) results and on the outer plane 
there is friction and chaos. This con¬ 
tinues until the mind is stilled and 


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ready and willing to listen to the “still 
small voice” of Spirit, which leads back 
again to harmony and health. 

Peace of mind is a consciousness of 
the eternal peace of the Spirit. Joy is 
a consciousness of the eternal love 
which abides in Spirit. 

The mind that is washed in the 
vibrations of Universal Love becomes a 
mighty power for good. 

Love wipes out all differences and 
levels all barriers; it shows us that each 
individual is enfolded in the One, that 
the highest good of one is no way 
opposed to the highest good of all. 

Love shows us that all the people of 
earth are traveling to one goal, though 
by varying routes. It teaches us that 
he who fails to take the best path is not 
willfully bad, but simply ignorant. He, 
like all the rest of mankind, is seeking 
the good. But his eyes are blinded by 
the mass of non-truth and material 
rubbish which the mortal (individual) 
mind of man has created. 


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What the people of earth need to-day 
to make them healthier, happier, nobler 
men and women, is to come back to the 
consciousness of the omnipresent Spirit 
in which they have their being. 

This one thing would solve all the 
vexatious problems connected with 
human life. It would solve the ques¬ 
tions of capital and labor. It would 
cause us to cease the mad effort to 
amass material wealth at the expense 
of our neighbors, because we should 
see that there could be no lack of 
wealth in the Universal. Each one 
would then find himself naturally 
attracting all that he needed to satisfy 
his every want. 

We should also clearly see that if we 
wrong or injure another it must sooner 
or later react upon ourselves. This is 
as true of nations as of individuals. 

As an illustration of the outworking 
of the eternal law of justice, we have 
only to glance at the history of African 
slavery in the United States. Years 

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ago our forefathers established this 
system and thereby laid the foundation 
for a great wrong, a grave injustice to 
an inferior people. This injustice grew 
and grew until the time of reaction 
could no longer be postponed; and it 
cost the nation one million lives and 
untold material wealth to even partially 
right this wrong. 

We invariably reap what we sow; 
but through oneness with the Supreme 
Spirit we may learn to sow only in 
accordance with law, order, justice, and 
love to all, and then we shall reap the 
fruit of these in place of discord and 
hate. 

The Universal can only find embodi¬ 
ment on earth through the individual. 
If eternal Love is to be manifested 
among men it must begin in your daily 
life and in mine. It is not a thing 
apart and separate from us. It is the 
very foundation of our beings now. 
But until we come to realize the unity 
of Life we wander away from the orig- 



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inal plan into many bypaths of our 
own devising which are not founded on 
Truth and so lead us into failure and 
inharmony. This is necessary in order 
that we may be led to turn back to the 
Source and willingly seek for oneness 
—at-one-ment—with it. 

We become a fitting temple for Spirit, 
and begin to show forth the attributes 
of the Universal Life when we cease to 
impose our own will and desires upon 
others, and leave each one free to live 
out his own interpretation of life in his 
own manner; when we are willing to 
serve as well as to be served; when we 
seek the good of all, and willingly turn 
from the promptings of our individual 
—mortal—wills and work with the will 
of the Universal as it becomes inter¬ 
preted to us; when we have learned to 
listen to the promptings of Spirit 
instead of following offhand all 
the transient promptings of our phys¬ 
ical desires; when we are willing to do 
some or all of these things we shall 




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begin to get hold of the real substance 
of Life. 

We often attempt to regulate the 
lives of our friends through imposing 
our own wills upon them. This we do 
under the impression that our concep¬ 
tion of Truth is superior to theirs, and 
that we see more clearly than they do. 
This is really but a form of selfishness, 
and binds all who indulge in it, both the 
strong and the weak. Of course there 
is a point where a kind and friendly de¬ 
sire to help another may be productive 
of good. But when the desire to help 
another involves the subjugation of his 
spirit and understanding, then that 
desire becomes a selfish one. For you 
cannot force a knowledge of Truth 
upon any one. Only love and patience 
and living the Truth yourself can bring 
it to the consciousness of your friends. 

The Word of Truth spoken in the 
silence is more effective than a thou¬ 
sand arguments in most cases. ( Em¬ 
body Truth in yourself and you will 
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have no need to force it to the attention 

of others. 

“The Truth is large; no man hath seen 
the whole; 

Larger than words; it brooks not the 
control 

Of argument and of distinctions nice; 

No age or creed can hold it, no device 

Of speech or language, ay, no syllo¬ 
gism; 

Truth is the sun, and reason is the 
prism 

You lift before it; whence the light is 
thrown 

In various colors; each man takes his 
own. 

If this man takes the red as you the 
blue, 

Is yours the whole? and is his truth not 
true? 

Spirit is truth, howe’er the colors fall; 

The fact comes back to spirit, after all.” 

—Samuel Valentine Cole. 


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XIV. 

HOW NEW THOUGHT HELPS 
ONE. 

No Magical Processes in Nature — 
Working With Nature Produces 
Wonderful Results—How Some Un¬ 
consciously Use New Thought and 
Get Results—Acquire Poise. 

0 not get the idea that you 
can by any magical 
process dictate to nature 
the exact way, the par¬ 
ticular road, by which 
success and health are 
to come to you. 

It is all right to “want what you 
want when you want it,” as Brother 
Shelton writes about in Christian, but 
there has to be a certain road prescribed 
by which it is to come to you, and you 
—your conscious, finite self—are not 
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and cannot be the judge. If you 
could sway the eternal powers to your 
bidding, chaos would result. 

Man acquires freedom in proportion 
as he learns wisdom by experience and 
by faith. But he learns to work with 
the forces of nature and not against 
them, just as the mechanic works with 
the principles of physics in perfecting 
a new machine. 

The teachings of new thought help 
one to gain greater freedom from unde¬ 
sirable environment by working with 
nature. They can help one to seize and 
make the most of opportunities, to ex¬ 
pand and strengthen faith. But noth¬ 
ing can take the place of sustained 
effort. No philosophy of life can carry 
us to the goal “on flowery beds of ease.” 

So keep your head, my friend, and 
keep steady, and when things don’t go 
to suit you keep cheerful and look for 
the flaw, and then try a new way, a 
new attitude of mind or conduct. 

Assume, by all means, that the good 

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things of the universe are coming to 
you; that health, wealth, joy, peace, 
love, all are yours by divine right. But 
don't assume that you know just when 
and how they are going to manifest to 
you. 

You will find in the long run that 
you gain ground by every experience, 
even the unpleasant ones, and the 
clouds will often hide the sunlight you 
are seeking. 

The new thought leads you to see the 
principle of good working in and 
through every experience, and conse¬ 
quently you grow in faith and confi¬ 
dence and this principle finds freer and 
fuller expression through you and you 
manifest more of health and success. 

There is nothing magical or strange 
or wonderful or mysterious about it, 
and the only thing about it that is new, 
is in the application of Truth to the 
everyday problems of life. 

We are just waking up to the knowl¬ 
edge that the man who cultivates faith, 

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courage, Good Will, who sees good work¬ 
ing in and through every experience, 
makes himself an attractive center for 
the good things of life. 

Even those who do not understand 
the principle behind their acts, con¬ 
form on the unconscious plane to the 
same laws and get results. The mer¬ 
chant who is courteous, cordial, smiling, 
who fills all orders carefully and 
promptly, will succeed where the one of 
sour visage, determined to please him¬ 
self rather than the public, and who is 
slipshod in his methods, will fail. 

Your new thought comes in by con¬ 
sciously applying the principles of 
health and success in your daily life, 
instead of going through life blindly in 
a hit-or-miss fashion. The new thought 
expands your faith and takes away the 
imaginary bounds which people have 
been setting for themselves through 
countless generations. 

***** 

The man or woman who is poised, 


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cheerful, full of self-confidence and 
Good Will, gives you a comfortable 
feeling as soon as you come into his or 
her presence. You are naturally 
attracted to such. 

There are others who make you feel 
exactly the opposite. They carry fail¬ 
ure in their faces, in their manner, in 
their walk, in their presence. They are 
hypnotized by doubt and discourage¬ 
ment ; and you should hold toward them 
the mental attitude of awakening them 
to a fuller realization of their real 
capabilities. 

* * * * * 

New thought gives you a reason, a 
sound basis for being cheerful, even in 
the midst of seeming discouragements 
because it teaches you that you are 
ONE WITH THE PRINCIPLE OF ALL 
life, and that you have only 
to recognize your at-one-ment and let 
the Supreme Life (Good) live through 
you and find expression through you in 
order to reap benefit from every expe- 
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rience. And when you get this vision 
of truth your faith expands and you 
are in a mental position to accept 
opportunities for bettering yourself 
when they come to you, and you begin 
to pass on to better and better things. 
Your confidence in the general goodness 
of the All Embracing Life grows, and 
good results are bound to manifest. 
Only doubt and lack of faith can keep 
you back. 

There are some people whose habit¬ 
ual mental attitude is such that suc¬ 
cess or health or any good thing could 
not reach them with a ten foot pole. 
New thought says to these people: 
“Right about face! Begin to look for 
something good in life. Seek and you 
shall find. ‘Knock and it shall be 
opened unto you.’ Stop your resistance 
and your everlasting rebellion and eter¬ 
nal kicking. Remember the experience 
of Job. Is not good all and in all? Do 
we not live and move and have our 


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being in good? Is not evil a negation 
of good, and not a real thing in itself? 
Then does it not logically follow that 
there can be no lack in this Life Prin¬ 
ciple of which we are a part; and that 
all that can keep us from a reasonable 
share of health and joy is our own 
doubt, resistance, and rebellion?” 

Even if you do not believe in the 
all pervading Principle of Good, or if 
you believe in a God who is not all good, 
all powerful, all pervading (as so many 
seem to do) you can yet see the good 
results which follow from a healthy 
mental attitude. Even the most mate¬ 
rialistic can trace the benefits of keep¬ 
ing the mind set toward the light. 


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XV. 

THE POWER OF IMAGINATION 
AND FAITH. 

The Inner Consciousness the Source 
of Power—The Imagination as a 
Builder — Faith. 

F you look only at the 
things outside yourself, 
if you allow your mind 
to dwell on obstacles, 
you will be sure to find 
the path to health and 
success a thorny one. 

It is your own inner consciousness, 
your own decision, your own mental- 
spiritual attitude that brings you into 
the path to realization of your desires 
and keeps you firmly there. 

It is easy to magnify obstacles— 
nothing easier. Most of us have active 
imaginations when it comes to the 

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obstacles and the “bad” or negative 
things of life. 

The point is, if you want health and 
success you must keep your imagination 
working on the right side, on the side 
of eternal Truth, instead of allowing it 
to wander around in the shadows of 
half truths and total negations. 

You see, imagination is a mighty 
creative instrument. By the use of 
imagination we constantly come into 
touch with better, greater things, ahead 
of us. Imagination, when guided by 
faith, blazes the path between ourselves 
and God’s limitless storehouse of supply. 

By the use of imagination, you draw 
around you conditions similar to those 
you picture. Through your atmos¬ 
phere, which is determined by your 
thought, you become connected with the 
universe, and attract according to the 
quality of this atmosphere. 

Teach your imagination to look for 
the good in life, because only the good 
is true. When the imagination pic- 
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tures evil, it is simply picturing a denial 
of truth. Evil has no foundation in 
reality save as you clothe it with life. 

Surround yourself with a calm atmos¬ 
phere of faith in the Universal Spirit 
of Love and Life, and you will be 
protected from all evil. You will be 
enabled to see that the so-called evil 
experiences which may come into your 
life from time to time are simply needed 
lessons—stepping-stones to a higher 
growth. 

You were created in the “image and 
likeness” of your Father, you live and 
have your being in Him, your life is one 
with the Universal Life; therefore no 
evil can harm you, because no evil can 
exist in the Universal Spirit of Love of 
which you are a part. The Father 
cares for you always, under all circum¬ 
stances, and just as soon as you begin to 
realize this and look for good, set your 
imagination at work picturing good, 
you will see it coming into your life. 

Not everything will come as you 


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would have it. Walk by faith rather 
than sight. You in your finite knowl¬ 
edge cannot know always what is best. 
But if you will cultivate faith under 
all circumstances, absolute, unquestion¬ 
ing faith, you will be able to see as time 
passes that each experience has been 
good, that each experience has led to 
your further development towards the 
realization of harmony and usefulness. 

The Spirit of Life works through 
you, constantly evolving a higher de¬ 
gree of wisdom, a fuller realization of 
the purpose and meaning of life. But 
if your eyes are shut, if your imagina¬ 
tion is busy creating evil and fear pic¬ 
tures, your development is slow and 
unsatisfactory. You are then com¬ 
pelled, by the law of your being, to 
learn by hard experience instead of 
being gently led by faith into the land 
of peace. 

And now I come to another important 
point, and that relates to doing. We 
can never work out all our problems by 

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simply sitting still and meditating 
about them, however beneficial medi¬ 
tation may be when rightly employed. 

You know that when we are going to 
build a house we first get the architect 
to write out all our specifications and 
draw the plans, down to the smallest 
details. But until the builder takes 
hold of these plans and works them out 
we can never have a house and the 
plans alone will do us little good. 

Now, through meditation and the use 
of our imaginative faculty we sketch 
out our plans for future development, 
and having got the plans well defined 
the next necessary step is to go ahead 
and work, step by step, along the plans 
outlined. It is not sufficient for us to 
see that love attracts friends and health; 
that hate repels them; that good will 
toward others creates good will toward 
us; that our imaginations may create 
for us undesired conditions. We must 
not only see that these things are true, 
but we must go ahead and act accord- 

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ingly—we must live by our specifica¬ 
tions. Our will, the entire force of our 
being, must be focused along the line of 
attainment we desire. Then, if our 
specifications are based on Truth we 
cannot fail of success. If they are not 
based on Truth then we deserve to fail, 
and failure under such conditions can 
only result in our further good. 

Remember that inasmuch as you are 
a part of the One Life, all other beings 
are also a part of this great Unity. 
All Life is bound together by universal 
laws which cannot be disregarded by 
one to the detriment of others. 

If you will seek to know the will and 
impulse of the Father who worketh 
through us all, if you will keep that 
desire ever foremost in your soul, if 
you will keep your personal will ever 
on the side of the highest truth you 
can recognize, and try to cultivate faith 
at all times, you cannot fail of realiz¬ 
ing, in an ever fuller degree, health, 
harmony, and real success. 


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XVI. 

HEALTH, HAPPINESS, AND BUSY 
HANDS. 

It is Only by Labor that Thought Can 
Be Made Healthy, and Only by 
Thought that Labor Can Be Made 
Happy. — Ruskin. 

HERE is no man, woman, 
or child so truly deserv¬ 
ing of pity as the one 
who has nothing to do. 

Work is self-expres¬ 
sion and self-expression 
is life itself. 

The habitually idle person is bound 
to be unhappy and is already in process 
of dying. 

And the person who works always 
with his mind and never with his hands 
is unbalanced—not properly poised. It 
takes actual daily use of the hands to 

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develop a man as he should be devel¬ 
oped. The man whose work is mental 
needs physical labor for recreation. 

The woman who is tied to dish wash¬ 
ing and housework and tending babies 
thinks she would be “perfectly happy” 
if she could have a hired girl or two to 
do the work for her. 

But she would n’t. You know dis¬ 
tance always clothes a thing with a big 
bunch of enchantment, and it’s so in 
this case. For it is a truth that no 
human being can be really happy and 
healthy with nothing to do. 

Of course many of you think you 
have too much to do. And of course 
a good thing may become monotonous. 
But too much work is better than too 
little. 

Just look at the pitiful subterfuges 
for work which rich people are forced 
—by custom and their own ignorance— 
to accept. Bridge parties, where the 
fierce, unnatural excitement of the 
gambler is substituted for healthy 
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emotion, with the result that the crav¬ 
ing for newer and stronger excitement 
is fed and fostered and lassitude and 
world-weariness grow apace. Pink 
teas for foolish little dogs—of far less 
intelligence and attractiveness than the 
plain shepherd dog which lives on a 
farm—or for dressed up and furbe- 
lowed monkeys. Think of grown peo¬ 
ple being so unutterably foolish! 

No wonder that the people who live 
in this way have to be entertained con¬ 
stantly. No wonder they never like to 
be alone for a minute. 

The self-reliant worker is developing 
both brain and body, and he is the one 
who really gets the most out of life. 

Any kind of work focuses and devel¬ 
ops the mind. It cultivates concentra¬ 
tion. All your energies develop by use , 
and work furnishes the outlet for 
energy which, denied an outlet, would 
be turned in, there to perish or be 
exhausted in the service of evil—the 
negations of life. 


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So, as you go about your daily bak¬ 
ing, dish washing, baby tending, stock 
feeding, plowing, planting, woodcut¬ 
ting, clerking, bookkeeping, typewrit¬ 
ing, or other work, do not take with 
you a downcast face and a fretful air. 

Remember that “only by thought can 
labor be made happy,” and give your 
best thoughts to your work. Then you 
will find it becomes more interesting. 
Make it more and more truly an ex¬ 
pression of yourself. Stamp it with 
your individuality, and see that it is 
well done. 

And remember that instead of stand¬ 
ing between you and happiness, work 
is really your greatest source of happi¬ 
ness. 

Don’t wait until you find just the 
kind of work you think you want to do 
before trying to do your best. You 
may have to wait a long time if you 
start out that way. But if you take 
what is next to you, what is right at 
hand and do your best, you ’ll find it’s 


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a short-cut to greater health, happiness, 
and success. 

The energy spent in fighting against 
what you do not like to do—or think 
you do not like to do—would be suffi¬ 
cient to accomplish the work and leave 
a handsome surplus for doing what you 
do like to do, when the opportunity 
comes. 


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XVII. 

TO MAKE YOURSELF VALUABLE. 

Work as a Means to Health and Spirit¬ 
ual Development—How Work Frees 
Inner Powers. 

D—thrice blessed— 
e man, woman, or 
who does his or her 
well. 

e worker who goes 
a new field of en¬ 
deavor can be reasonably sure of one 
direct course to success; and that is to 
do his work well. 

As the immortal Fra Elbertus has 
remarked, such an one need not be 
astonished any day to find the sign 
painter putting his name alongside that 
of the head of the firm. 

A large—very large—proportion of 
the energy of the leaders in any busi- 
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ness enterprise is wasted because they 
must forever be on the alert, directing, 
guiding, thinking for those who do not 
do their work well, and who will not do 
it even approximately well unless they 
are watched with the vigilance which a 
hawk employs when the chickens are 
let loose for a morning walk. 

Of course this is not always the fault 
of the workers, because many of them 
have never been trained—by their par¬ 
ents or others—to do things well, and 
many have never awakened to the 
importance and necessity of doing thor¬ 
ough work if their pay envelope is ever 
to fatten. More people would do thor¬ 
ough work if they realized its direct 
benefit upon themselves. 

Slipshod work is demoralizing. He 
who indulges in it is bound to live more 
or less of a slipshod life. His thinking 
gets out of plumb. As likely as any 
way he thinks he knows just how to 
reform his employers and the world in 
general. 


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But the only true reformer is the one 
who has learned to reform — re-form — 
himself , and to do his work well. 

Did you ever know a real, first class 
ranter who was also a good worker? 
Of course not. Nobody ever saw such 
a monstrosity. The worker is too busy 
sawing wood and looking to his own 
work to waste his energy in mere froth. 

But when he does express an idea, it 
is worthy of attention, because he has 
trained his mind and hands to do his 
work well. His mind is much more 
apt to be capable of thinking truth than 
that of the slipshod dawdler. 

It makes not the least difference 
whether you are working for yourself 
or others. The principle exists just the 
same. 

If you do your work well when work¬ 
ing for yourself and away from the 
compulsion of a boss, you lay up riches 
—greater riches than you probably 
realize—whether you gain a large share 
of material wealth or not. 


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There is a distinct, ennobling, devel¬ 
oping effect in work well done. 

The woman who keeps her home in 
careful order, who washes her dishes 
clean, and keeps the children neat, is 
bound to experience this effect no less 
than the woman artist or writer or 
sculptress. 

It matters little what your work is, 
but it matters infinitely how you do it. 

The man who slights his work because 
he thinks he is not paid enough for 
doing it, hurts himself more than he 
hurts any one else. 

You will never know real happiness 
nor find yourself in right relations with 
your environment until you work for 
work’s sake—for the developing effect 
and the blessing which good work on 
any plane always brings. 

The man who slights his work because 
he is working for another, the woman 
who lets the corners of her own home 
remain littered with dirt because she 
does n’t “have to” clean them, are both 


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weakening their own powers for accom¬ 
plishment on any line. 

Work well done is constructive. It 
has a strengthening, upbuilding effect 
upon the mind and body. Good work 
is a tonic. It brings out the best that 
is in a man. It gives orderly expres¬ 
sion to his inner powers. It frees such 
powers to the objective plane, where he 
can mould them to build up success in 
accordance with his desires. 

Sloppy work is destructive and de¬ 
moralizing. 

Do not risk fixing upon yourself the 
habit of doing inaccurate, careless 
work. Express yourself harmoniously 
and powerfully. 

Power must manifest in an orderly 
way to be of value. It must flow out 
in orderly work if you are to make a 
success. 

Poor work is chaotic. It is a misuse 
of power. 

If you expect to tap the great source 
of power within yourself and use it to 


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build upon, you must learn to do your 
work thoroughly and well. 

Work well done is an expression of 
the eternal law of harmony. 


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XVIII. 

PRACTICAL SELF-HEALING. 

You are Your Own Healer—How to 
Come into Harmony With Nature — 
Speak the Word of Health for Your¬ 
self. 



OTHING—nothing—n o r 
anybody can heal you 
without your consent and 
co-operation. 

If you apply to a 
regular physician, you 
must take his remedies and follow his 
instructions or you get no help. 

If you employ an osteopath, you 
must submit to his manipulations. 

And if you employ a mental healer 
you have to accept the statements of 
truth which he makes for you, before 
you can manifest them in your body. 
No healing process can be grafted upon 


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you from the outside, without your co¬ 
operation. 

Therefore, all real healing is self- 
healing. That is, it is yourself and 
Nature that do the work. 

You co-operate with Nature and she 
does the rest—whether you employ 
pills, manipulation, or Christian Science 
as your vehicle of healing. 

The most that any kind of a healer 
can do for you is to point out the way. 

If you are to be permanently cured, 
you must lay hold of health yourself in 
a lusty and whole-souled manner. 

The healer helps you by inspiring 
faith. And faith is the first and great¬ 
est requisite for a cure. Faith lets 
down the barriers to the healing powers 
of Nature. Faith renders you passive 
and hopeful and susceptible to the 
planting of health vibrations. 

But you can take your faith right 
straight to Nature and the Principle of 
Life, and not get your health second¬ 
hand through a physician or healer. 

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Health is harmony of vibration. 

To establish harmony, get yourself 
quiet. Prepare to ‘‘loaf and invite your 
soul.’' Sit right down in a chair, or lie 
down on your back and relax. 

Remember that you are going to let 
the organs of your body do their work. 
In many cases the reason they don’t is 
because you are scared and by your 
fear-thoughts prevent them from per¬ 
forming their natural functions. 

When you are quiet and relaxed, then 
set your thoughts steadily in the direc¬ 
tion of health and harmony. 

The Life Principle is omnipresent. 
It is always ready to fill you with har¬ 
mony and health and strength if you 
will let it. 

The Power, the Life Principle, by 
which you were brought into this 
world, and by which you have been kept 
alive thus far, is still doing business at 
the same old stand. What you need to 
do is to get back into a realization of 
your oneness with Omnipresent Life. 

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After you have relaxed and set your 
mind running in the right direction, 
keep busy and forget your troubles. 

The short cut to health is never found 
by dwelling on your troubles. When 
you are tempted to think of them, 
just REMEMBER THE OMNIPRESENCE 
OF LIFE. 

Fill your mind with this one thought, 
and your body will begin to be filled 
with health and new vigor. 

Self-healing is the realization of Life, 
through faith. 

Death and disease are simply nega¬ 
tions of Life, and they manifest first in 
your consciousness. 

Therefore, saturate your mind with 
thoughts of OMNIPRESENT LIFE and 
you will begin to manifest it. 

There is never any lack of Life. Only 
we get tired in our efforts to manifest 
Life, because we try too hard instead of 
letting Life live through us. We want 
to do Nature’s work for her. We want 
to force things to go this way and that 

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way, as we think they ought to go. So 
we get tangled in troubles of our own 
devising and wander away from the 
eternal Source of Life and Harmony. 

Don’t watch yourself, but keep your 
mind occupied and think of the Life 
you desire to manifest. 

Let go of rules and formulas and 
directions so far as possible, even of 
those I am giving you here, and trust 
the Life Principle for yourself. 

Speak for yourself the word of health 
and harmony. Do not allow yourself 
to waver and doubt. Go ahead and do 
something. Try. Keep the thousand 
and one negations and fears out of your 
mind. 

Healing is really just a matter of 
opening your eyes to the Truth. It is 
first a change in your consciousness 
which leads to a change in vibrations. 

Set your face steadily towards the 
light, and keep your mind filled with 
images of Life, and you will find the 
hidden powers of your soul, your Real 
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Self, unfolding day by day. And you 
will grow into a consciousness of your 
oneness with the One Life, the source 
of all health, harmony, and power. 


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XIX. 

^THE WAY TO GAIN RESULTS. 

Don’t be a Slave to Prejudice—How 
Habits Bind—How to Use the Law 
of Attraction. 

Y desire we attract to our¬ 
selves whatever conies in 
the way of experience. 

Faith-FULL trust in 
the Law of Life, backed 
by desire, is a magnet 
that never fails to attract health, joy, 
opulence. 

We seldom give this full trust, be¬ 
cause our doubts and fears intervene. 

And perhaps the greatest obstacle of 
all between us and this realization of 
faith is prejudice. 

We are abject slaves to prejudice. 
Our preconceived opinions hind us with 



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cords more powerful than those of 
woven wire. 

Our emotions, thoughts, and feelings 
are allowed to run in a certain channel, 
possibly as a result of mere whim at 
first, and lo! we have a habit. And it 
takes something little short of an 
earthquake to jar us loose from our 
fixed habit. 

Our only safety lies in not forming 
habits. 

We should avoid fixed ideas and 
make ourselves adaptable. Change of 
surroundings and meeting different 
people will help us. / 

Adapting ourselves to our present 
environment instead of fighting it will 
also help. 

Fretful fault-finding with our envi¬ 
ronment and the universe in general 
repels the very things that are desira¬ 
ble. 

The Life Principle, the Universal 
Life, responds to faith, but through 
doubt and hate we refuse to recognize 


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this Principle, and hence we see only 
chaos and inharmony where under¬ 
neath there is really love, light, life, 
power, peace. 

Desire or love sets the life forces in 
action. 

Do you want health? Cultivate a 
desire for it. Cultivate a faith in the 
all-ness of Life. If you desire and love 
life, it will flow to you. 

But if you are full of doubt, hate, 
fear, Life will be repelled and cannot 
manifest through you. 

Would you live in harmony with hus¬ 
band or wife? Cultivate love. ' Look 
deeper than the outward seeming and 
you will find that there is that in your 
companion which will respond to you./ 
/ The highest form of love is the desire to 
make others happy, and this kind of 
love is sure to bring response. / 

Desire is creative. A steady pur¬ 
pose, held to through all seeming diffi¬ 
culties, is bound to bear much fruit. 

The reason many people do not get 

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what they desire is because they are 
never steadfast. Their minds veer 
from one desire to another as lightly 
as a butterfly passes from one flower to 
another, never stopping long enough to 
imprint the desire upon the world of 
vibration in such a forceful, indelible 
manner as to create a current which 
would bring results. 

It is the steady desire that produces 
results. 


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XX. 

ONE OF THE SECRETS OF MIND 
AND BODY VIGOR. 

How to Get Rid of Hurry and Worry — 
Through Repose Power is Gained — 
How to Produce Physical Relaxation. 

ET out of the world 
currents of hurry and 
worry. 

Take a rest. It isn’t 
necessary to go on a va¬ 
cation in order to do so. 
You can do it now, right where you 
are. It does not matter whether you 
are washing dishes, working at a desk, 
hoeing corn, cutting wood, running a 
typewriter, or working at one of a hun¬ 
dred other things. 

You can begin now to let some of the 
kinks out of your muscles and give 
them a needed rest. 

The first necessity is to get the strain 

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out of your mind. If you can get the 
hurry out of your mind you will find 
that much of your worry has also de¬ 
parted, and then you will begin to be 
ready to give your tired, straining 
muscles a rest. 

The most of us form the habit of 
hurry soon after reaching the adult 
age. The habit never leaves us while 
life lasts, unless we make a special at¬ 
tempt to oust it and deliberately and 
persistently cultivate repose. 

The hurry habit must be broken up; 
we must get outside the ruts of hurry 
and worry which we have formed, if we 
are ever to take from our tired nerves 
and muscles some of the unnatural 
strain which has been imposed upon 
them. 

Just watch yourself for a few mo¬ 
ments. We will suppose that you enter 
a street car. How do you sit while rid¬ 
ing? Straight and stiff with a kink in 
the small of your back? Arms stiff? 
Legs stiff? 


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l 


It is quite likely that you may assert 
that you sit perfectly at ease. In this 
case it is more than likely that you do 
not know what natural relaxation is. 
The best example of perfect and natu¬ 
ral relaxation is a baby. Study a very 
young child when he is awake and when 
asleep. Then compare the attitude of 
an adult under similar conditions. 
Note the more or less anxious, strained, 
and hurried look on the faces of nine 
out of ten people in a street car. / Their 
minds are hurrying on to their destina¬ 
tions. They are planning and worry¬ 
ing about their work. They are going 
over and over in their minds events 
already passed and which can by no 
possibility be changed, and yet they are 
sapping their energy and vitality in 
worrying about them. 

Nine times out of ten the worry- 
hurry habit begins over trivial things. 
Then, as it becomes fixed and chronic, 
the victim naturally attracts cause for 
worry. He gets into the worry vibra- 
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tion on the slightest provocation and 
stays there. In this way he saps his 
own energy in a useless manner, at¬ 
tracts about him an atmosphere of 
worry, stands in his own light, keeps 
away success which might otherwise 
come to him, and builds up fretful, 
nervous, weak brain cells instead of 
calm, strong ones. 

Through repose power is gained . 
Learn to put only so much energy into 
your work as is required to properly 
complete it. When you ride in a street 
car, or sit in your home, relax mind 
and body. This will literally enable 
you to recreate—re-create—yourself, if 
you learn to do it properly and form the 
habit , get it as firmly fixed as you have 
the hurry-worry habit. 

Now physical relaxation is compara¬ 
tively simple to acquire, in some degree, 
and it will aid you in mental relaxa¬ 
tion, just as mental relaxation will take 
some of the strain from the nerves and 
muscles. 


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When you seat yourself in a chair, 
relax the muscles of your feet and legs. 
Remember that the floor is supporting 
your feet. You don’t have to hold them 
up. And you don’t have to hold your¬ 
self on your chair. You don’t have to 
grasp it with your hands. If you are 
riding, remember the carriage or car is 
carrying you to your destination. You 
are not concerned with the process. 
Let your arms rest easily at your sides 
or on the arms of your chair or seat. 
If you are writing, don’t grasp your 
pen in a death hug. Hold it just firmly 
enough to do the work. Don’t keep 
your backbone too stiff. This does n’t 
mean that you need slump down. You 
can sit erect, but don’t hold yourself 
there. Learn to rest in that position. 
Many people are not content to sit 
erect, but they mentally hold themselves 
there. 

When you go to bed be sure that you 
relax before going to sleep, to the ex¬ 
tent of being comfortable at least. You 


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will find it will help you to do this if 
you think of your legs as being heavy, 
and imagine that you roll them around 
as you would if they were detached logs 
of wood. Then remember that the bed 
is supporting your backbone. You no 
longer need to hold it in position, how¬ 
ever you may feel about it during the 
day. Don’t hold you head on the pil¬ 
low, let it rest there. If you can feel 
any kinks in any part of your body, let 
go of them and mentally relax that 
part of your body. 

Remember this: Life is omni¬ 
present. You don’t have to go 
around with tense muscles and strain¬ 
ing, excited nerves trying to grasp Life 
and hold on to it. 

Life lives through you. 

Stop yourself many times at your 
daily work long enough to remember 
that mental hurry won't help to accom¬ 
plish your work. 

Undue tension of nerves and 

MUSCLES WASTES STRENGTH. If per- 


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sisted in it interferes with the normal 
circulation of the blood. It disturbs 
the adjustment of the various organs 
of the body. 

The restless energy of Americans ex¬ 
hausts their vital forces and nervous 
breakdowns are the result. 

The remedy is the cultivation of 
repose—repose in everyday life. 

Don’t say that you cannot take the 
time to cultivate poise and relaxation 
until repose is natural. You can do it 
while engaged in your regular work, 
and it will pay you a thousand times 
over in peace, happiness, health, and 
success. 

I remember reading about a book 
written by a Chinaman who had vis¬ 
ited America and then returned to his 
native land. He thought we were an 
exceedingly funny people. One thing 
he could n’t understand at all was why 
we preferred to go out in the wind and 
sun and rush madly around and play 
football, or watch the players and yell, 

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FROM WITHIN. 


instead of sitting and quietly meditat¬ 
ing on the graves of our ancestors. 
To him the latter proceeding seemed 
far more sensible and enjoyable. 

I think we might learn a lesson in 
poise from the Oriental people. 

Take the Chinese laundrymen, for 
instance. Nobody knows how many 
hours a day they work, because no¬ 
body but the policeman on night duty 
sits up until they quit for the night. 
But you don’t see these Chinamen 
rushing, tearing, hurrying in a breath¬ 
less manner to get through their work. 
No. They are as leisurely as a small boy 
sent to drive the cows home. Only they 
don’t waste time. They work steadily. 

There’s where we fail. We lose 
our poise and are like an engine run¬ 
ning wild. 

Let’s begin to cultivate a little poise. 
Let’s not allow ourselves to feel in a 
hurry. 

Sitting in the silence daily and thor¬ 
oughly relaxing will help us. 

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And after a time we will acquire the 
habit of poise. 

We have acquired the habit of hurry. 
(Our large cities are responsible for 
that in a great measure.) And we can 
set a new habit of moderation if we 
will. 

And it will pay us in added energy, 
reserve force, less wrinkles, and better 
digestion. 


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XXL 

TO LENGTHEN LIFE. 

How We Devitalize the Present—Cause 
of the Old Age Habit—The One 
Remedy. 


0 live in a sense of time is 
to live in slavery. To 
use our powers in such a 
way as to “ save time” is 
economy, and results in 
a surplus of energy and 
the things which energy creates. But 
to live in a constant strain and hurry 
in order to make time, shortens life in¬ 
stead of lengthening it. 

If we live much in the past we devi¬ 
talize the present. The past is dead—to 
us—and having learned its lesson, to 
the extent of our powers of compre¬ 
hension, we should not send living 
thought and energy back to the empty 
shell. 








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To live much in the future may be 
nearly as bad. He who lives much in 
the future becomes an idle dreamer. 

He lives longest and happiest who 
dwells much in “the eternal now”; who 
realizes eternity as he goes along. 

“Live not in the past nor in the 
future, but in the Eternal.” 

If we compare our present condition 
with our past we often become discour¬ 
aged. Or if we look forward to the 
future we may easily become the victim 
of worry, which is only one form of 
fear. 

Take no anxious thought for the 
morrow, but do well what you have to 
do to-day. 

It is easy to conjure up pictures of 
future good, but unless you dig up a 
good bunch of living faith in the pres¬ 
ent you might as well take a back seat 
before you are any older, for you will 
surely grow older very fast without 
such a faith. 

Eternal youth is only to be found by 

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FROM WITHIN. 


living in the now. If you look back, it 
helps fix a sense of time in your mind. 
You begin to believe that you are grow¬ 
ing old, whether you are or not, and 
little by little you yourself bind the 
fetters of age about your body. 

The Universal Life in which you 
have your being is neither old nor 
young. It neither begins nor ends. It 
simply is. 

Time is an invention of man which 
he uses to calculate the date of his own 
death warrant. A man thinks he has 
to grow old at about such an age. He 
sees every one else doing so. He knows 
that his forefathers did the same, 
as far back as he can trace them. 
Everything about him, so far as the 
human race is concerned, almost forces 
him to accept the idea that he is grow¬ 
ing old, even if he does not feel so. 
More than likely he is fettered with a 
thousand useless, foolish fears of dis¬ 
ease, which help on greatly the old age 
habit. Indeed, he is fortunate if he 


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reaches middle life without giving way 
to these fears, and stepping off the 
stage before he has to think much about 
old age. Is it any wonder that we have 
continued to grow old and die under 
such conditions? 

To lengthen life we must first break 
from the dogma of fear. 

Then we must get outside the race 
belief in old age, or rather get it outside 
of us. We must go to headquarters, to 
Life itself, for our ideas on the subject. 
We must quit drifting in the age-worn 
channels of death and disaster, which 
the ignorance of the race has created 
for us. We must climb up out of these 
channels and get a look around from 
the sides. 

We shall find Life waiting for us 
there. We shall find that we need not 
drift in the same old way if we choose 
not to. When we are filled with a 
strong enough desire for Life, our fate 
will bring us to a realization of the 
eternal presence of Life. 

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FROM WITHIN. 


It is our effort to make Life come to 
our terms that makes us tired of living. 

Let Life live through you and you 
will find yourself getting out of the 
established rut and traveling on the 
way to youth. 


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XXII. 

TO MAKE LIFE BRIGHTER. 

The Connecting Link Between Yourself 
and God—How to Command the Re¬ 
spect of your Fellows—Secret of a 
Contented Life. 

OES life seem hard or 
dull to you ? 

That is because your 
heart is not in the things 
that you do. 

Your soul is sensitive 
to the judgments of your intellect. 
The light of your soul has been hidden 
by your adverse intellectual judgments. 

You have said, “Life is a weary 
round,” and immediately the white 
light of the soul became obscured and 
it seemed to your mortal judgment that 
your words were true. 

But they were not true. They were 
uttered while your mortal eyes were 



150 





FROM WITHIN. 


gazing upon the shadow, while your 
senses were hypnotized by the material 
world. Had you listened, walked softly, 
and looked with the eye of loving faith, 
the white light of the spirit would have 
leaped forth to reward you, and behold! 
the weariness would have vanished. 

Keep silent and walk with reverent 
tread when you approach the realm 
where the soul is king. The soul is the 
connecting link between yourself and 
God. As the tiny inlet or arm of the 
sea partakes of all the qualities of the 
great ocean, so your soul partakes of 
the qualities and is one in essence with 
the Great All. 

So the soul is the builder of the man. 
From the soul all power proceeds. 
When the soul speaks all illness and 
trouble vanish. The soul is an inex¬ 
haustible storehouse of all the good 
things which you desire. All the bright 
and happy experiences of life are stored 
in the soul. They are yours if you will 
but seek them. 


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Doubt always stifles the soul’s mani¬ 
festations and prevents the realization 
of its riches. Faith is the royal pass¬ 
word to the soul’s possessions. He who 
trusts fully his own soul and the Great 
God of the universe who works therein 
will find life growing ever brighter and 
brighter before him. 

Have faith in the integrity of your 
own soul, and stand by it mentally 
under all circumstances. Do not let 
the miasma of doubt envelop the clear 
sight of your intuitive faculties. Doubt, 
remember, is always a product of mor¬ 
tal mind, and, however powerfully it 
may appeal to your limited or sense self, 
it is not and never can be a part of that 
Eternal Principle upon which your 
being is based. 

Doubt has no place in the Divine 
Mind of which you are becoming more 
and more conscious. In this mind there 
are only knowledge, peace and certainty. 
Where you have heretofore seen “as 
through a glass, darkly,” you now see 


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face to face with Eternal Truth. As 
your confidence in your soul’s integrity 
grows strong the uncertainty, the rest¬ 
less, floating, fearful aimlessness of life 
give way to the peace which eternally 
exists in the Divine Mind, of which 
your soul partakes. You become con¬ 
scious of the Eternal Presence, which is 
ever with you to show you the right 
path, to help you make the right de¬ 
cision. 

As you thus become more and more 
conscious of the soul you not only have 
far more self-respect but command the 
respect of your fellows. As soon as 
the real light of the spirit begins to 
shine forth you will win love and re¬ 
spect without striving for them. Says 
Emerson: “A man is the facade of a 
temple wherein all wisdom and all good 
abide. What we commonly call man— 
the eating, drinking, planting, counting 
man—does not, as we know him, rep¬ 
resent himself, but misrepresents him¬ 
self. Him we do not respect, but the 


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soul, whose organ he is, would he but 
let it appear through his action, would 
make our knees bend. When it breathes 
through his intellect it is genius; when 
it flows through his affection it is love. 
And the blindness of the intellect be¬ 
gins when it would be something of 
itself. The weakness of the will begins 
when the individual would be some¬ 
thing of himself. All reform aims, in 
some one particular, to let the great 
soul have its way through us.” 

The secret of a contented, happy life 
is to cultivate a perfect faith in the One 
Life and let the Spirit of the universe 
live itself through you without let or 
hindrance. 

Why should you fret or worry when 
your soul is stayed upon the foundation 
of Eternal Truth? Your supply is the 
universal supply. Your love, faith, and 
hope are fed from an inexhaustible store¬ 
house. You do not need to strive. 
You do not need to strain after results 
and the power of intellectual percep- 


154 



FROM WITHIN. 


tion. The way of the Spirit is devoid 
of strife. It is the way of peace and 
non-resistance. 

This does not mean inactivity, but it 
means that you put your heart into all 
that you do because you are following 
the Divine Will instead of your per¬ 
sonal, mortal will. When your work 
seems dull and ill-adapted to your ca¬ 
pacity, by the eye of faith you may see 
a needed lesson to be learned, a path 
which must be trod ere the heights can 
be reached. And so you go forward 
with your heart in your work and a 
smile on your lips. This drives away 
the mental clouds and allows the pure, 
white sunlight of the Spirit to shine 
out. This makes your life brighter, 
steadier, fuller, and infinitely more sat¬ 
isfying. 

All the walls between yourself and 
the Universal Life are created by your 
mortal (mental) fear, doubt, and resist¬ 
ance to the Divine Principle which is 
seeking to express itself through you. 


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Doubt is the only devil that can harm 
you. 

“Faith steps out on seeming void 
And finds the solid rock.” 

About nine hundred and ninety-nine 
of the things you fear never come to 
pass, and the thousandth would be 
powerless to harm you if you met it in 
faith. / 

Let the glorious life of the universe 
live itself through you and you will find 
rest, peace, and satisfaction. You will 
find completeness in your life for the 
first time. The reason there is so much 
unrest, unhappiness, and widespread 
dissatisfaction with life is because there 
is so much incompleteness in the re¬ 
sponse given to the impulses of the 
Universal Life. As a consequence no 
one fulfills the pattern of his individu¬ 
ality. He falls far short of attaining 
his full stature because he is limiting 
his growth at every step by putting his 
faith and trust in the judgments of his 
mortal mind, instead of giving himself 


166 



FROM WITHIN. 


over fully to the guidance of his intui¬ 
tion and following faithfully the Divine 
Urge in place of mortal, limited under¬ 
standing. “ The Father knoweth what 
things ye have need of.” 

It accomplishes little to let go the 
mortal will unless you follow lovingly 
and faithfully the Divine leading. Un¬ 
less you exercise faith and cultivate 
love when you begin to let go of the 
mortal life you will simply sink into a 
negative condition of indifference, where 
the bottom seems to drop out of every¬ 
thing and life holds no interest. 

The life of the world (the animal, 
mortal life) is more desirable than the 
condition just described. The Law of 
Life is activity. Life is not life unless 
your heart finds expression in all your 
acts, unless you love all that you do and 
follow will-ingly the Divine leading. 
This alone will lead you into the path 
of brightness and peace. 


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